The first Oiconomy pricing pilot study conducted in 2022 is now discussed in a scientific paper in the Q1 journal Business Strategy and the Environment. It is available for downloading in Open Access here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bse.3400    

We just submitted a ground-breaking research proposal to the National Science Agenda (NWA) call for research consortia of NWO. Together with 24 partners, Utrecht University created a transdisciplinary Community of Practice: the Oiconomy Pricing Lab. It includes frontrunning companies applying Oiconomy Pricing, various business networks, sustainability consultants, civil society organisations and academic partners and universities…

On the 12th of October 2022, the first Consortium of the Oiconomy Pricing Lab and NWA-ORC was held at the Utrecht University Hall (Academiegebouw Universiteit Utrecht). The event started with a warm welcome by Walter J.V. Vermeulen, one of the co-founders of the Oiconomy Pricing, followed by a round of introduction of the Consortium members….

On 12th September, Oiconomy Pricing was invited to hold a workshop at the annual meeting of the Sustainability University, chaired by Carola Wijdoogen at the Number 5 Foundation in The Hague. The gathering started with a warm welcome by Laurentien van Oranje, followed by a reflection on the “The State of the Sustainability Profession” by…

On 6th and 7th September, the Oiconomy team trained six Oiconomy Ambassadors in applying the Oiconomy Pricing tool. The Oiconomy Ambassadors are second-year students from the Masters programmes “Sustainable Development” and “Sustainable Business Innovation” at Utrecht University. During the training, the participants first got introduced to the Oiconomy Pricing key principles by the founder of…

Hordijk Groep B.V. produces the jar for the pepper sold bij Verstegen (see examples). Bastiaan Koenen, Sales Manager at Hordijk about Oiconomy: “It is a method to determine the true price of products in the supply chain: the extra cost for the sustainable version of a product. We did this with a jar of white…

This week we submitted the pre-proposal to the Dutch science funding agency NWO for the National Science Agenda (NWA). The NWA enables universities to build consortia with the aim to make a positive, structural contribution to the society of tomorrow. In the last months we have been building a strong consortium with 9 (applied) universities…

In the recent in-depth reportage on sustainability labels, Dr. Walter J.V. Vermeulen and Dr. Pim Croes presented their work with Oiconomy Pricing. Read an excerpt of the full reportage by Marta Jiménez below: Illustration David Alabo “Sustainability in global value chains is everyone’s business: farmers, big companies, entrepreneurs, local governments,… But what about us, consumers?…

On April 6th, 2022 three pilot companies shared the results of applying the Oiconomy Pricing approach in the final meeting of the pilot project funded by the Dutch Enterprise Agency RVO. Verstegen Spices & Sauces B.V calculated the real price of pepper from Indonesia together with their pepper farmers in Bali. “We liked the process. The…

The Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development of Utrecht University started the procedure of building a consortium for the the further development and introduction of the Oiconomy Pricing approach. The Dutch science funding agency NWO enables in the National Science Agenda universities to build consortia to build and utilise knowledge to make a positive, structural contribution…