Measuring risks and opportunities of structural change towards circular innovations by means of regional indicators is very challenging in the Italian context due to the lack of data at disaggregate level. 

In this document, we first introduce the definition of Circular Economy (CE) adopted by European Institutions and then provide a list of potential indicators for monitoring the regional CE transition. The lack of data for monitoring the CE transition in Member States was recently pointed out by the European Court of Auditors (2023). 

This document moves exactly with the aim to indicate a way to fill this gap. To look at the relationship between regional specialization and circular economy transition, we need to isolate indicators from supply side (industries). To exhaustively address the issue of this deliverable, we need moreover to collect novel evidence from a micro-economic perspective. To this end, we propose a potential survey at firm-level on the CE transition that can allow us to produce detailed evidence at regional and industrial level.