“Europe needs more growth and jobs but these cannot come at the expense of the environment. That is why an effective industrial policy needs to embrace resource efficiency” is the title of an article in the December issue of Enterprise & Industry.

This coincides exactly with the objective of the Performance Economy and shows how far ahead the thinking of Walter Stahel’s book The Performance Economy was, when it was first published in 2006 (second edition 2010): business models to create more growth and more jobs while greatly reducing resource consumption.