Inga Uvarova is a PhD Candidate and elaborated thesis on "Use of Open innovation and Circular Principles for Ensuring Envieonmnetal Sustainability of Companies". She is a senior lecturer at BA School of Business and Finance, a sustainability consultant and founder of the research and consultancy company ArtSmart. She has founded two business incubators and worked as mentor for start-ups. Inga has extensive experience within the design, implementation and evaluation of local and transnational projects (Erasmus, Interreg, Horizon, ERDF, etc.). Inga has a proven experience in research with more than 20 scientific articles published. Her research and project interests relate to the business models and open innovation, start-up and scale-up companies, the environmental sustainability, use of circular principles and creating shared value in companies. Inga has collected and classified 60 circular business principles (60R) as the tool for assessment and generation of new ideas for the environmental sustainability performance of companies.