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Yoshiki Takeoka

Managing Executive Officer & General Manager, New Business Development Department, Kaneka Corporation

Yoshiki Takeoka is responsible to new business development projects of Kaneka group, including biodegradable polymer.

He has built his career in new business start-ups and their project management at Kaneka Corporation. Since 2011 as a general manager of new business development, he has been developing many new businesses among the fields of environment, new energy, advanced high performance materials and health-care with open innovation.

Yoshiki Takeoka is speaking at the following WCEF2018 sessions:

Tue 23 October at 11:00 : Showcasing Circular Business Solutions

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Project

WCEF2018

The World Circular Economy Forum presents the world’s best circular economy solutions and brings together key circular economy thinkers and doers from around the world.

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Topic

A circular economy

Circular economy solutions are needed to safeguard biodiversity and solve the climate crisis. In a circular economy we maintain the value of what we produce through smarter design and shifting from owning products to using services.

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Theme

Sustainability solutions

Our daily lives, decision-making practices and business can fit within the earth’s carrying capacity. It pays to seize sustainable solutions right now, as they can help us stop overconsumption and biodiversity loss and mitigate climate change.

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