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Welcome to Florida State University's official entrepreneurship and innovation podcast, The InNOLEvation® Mindset! Hosted by Mark McNees and powered by the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship. This podcast features audio and video versions of our podcast, which highlights student and alumni entrepreneurs and innovators from FSU.
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In this episode of the InNOLEvation® Mindset, Host Mark McNees welcomes Danfoss Vice President of Public Affairs and Sustainability Andrea Voigt, former Danfoss Turbocor CEO Ricardo Schneider (now Danfoss advisor and FSU sustainability professor), and Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship MS of Social and Sustainable Enterprises student Erin Hovermale to discuss the circular economy. Andrea recounts her sustainability journey from the Montreal Protocol era, highlights industry priorities such as energy efficiency, phasing down HFC refrigerants, and systems-based thinking, and notes that heating and cooling account for about half of global final energy use, with over 80% still fossil-based. The guests describe Danfoss’s “reduce, reuse, resource” approach, science-based targets, and a goal of 100% renewable electricity by 2030 (67% achieved), plus circular KPIs requiring circularity in 80% of new product development and 25% of revenue from circular principles. They cover remanufacturing and takeback programs, waste-heat reuse (including district heating), a highly efficient Florida facility that uses recovered process heat and solar power, and service-based models like refrigeration-as-a-service, while comparing EU and US regulations and noting advanced building standards in Singapore.
00:00 Welcome and Guests
01:04 Andrea’s Background
02:22 Ricardo’s Career Shift
04:02 Erin’s Student Perspective
05:39 Andrea’s Sustainability Journey
07:31 Industry Lessons and Systems
09:58 Heating Cooling Energy Impact
14:21 Efficiency First in Practice
16:48 Danfoss Climate Targets
18:07 Renewables and Scope Metrics
20:36 Turbocor’s Efficient Factory
21:52 Circular Initiatives at Danfoss
23:14 Circularity Revenue Targets
23:25 Circular Initiatives Examples
25:20 EU vs US Sustainability Rules
28:07 Learning From Asia Standards
29:08 Designing for Circular Products
32:23 Defining Circularity in Practice
35:36 Waste Heat to Revenue
37:46 Service Models and Supermarkets
41:35 Industry Renaissance Ahead
43:01 Advice for Future Leaders
46:31 Closing Thanks and Wrap
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