Business Plan for the future of OPEN: EU

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The WWF commissioned Ribble Consultants and Infonomics Ltd to produce a business plan to allow the EUREAPA tool and underlying model to develop into a not-for-profit open-source self-sustaining product. The OPEN: EU programme involved several layers, namely: the Global Trade, Assistance, and Production project 7 dataset (GTAP7), the Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) model, and the European Resource and Energy Analysis Programme Application (EUREAPA tool).

We were asked to provide:

  • An analysis of the various options and, from this, a recommendation for the most appropriate strategy
  • A business plan showing how the project will become self-sustaining and how it will survive and develop under various different scenarios
  • A short term action plan to establish any new organisation and initiate the business plan.

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