After a thorough investigation concerning the potential subject of my dissertation i have concluded that primary thoughts and passion on the idea of "Recycling Stock Market" would be a strong motive to perform this research. Although it is a complicated subject i expect to achieve much and contribute to the recycling effort. Moreover the original ambition is to further implement it in a business and realistic manner in order to submit it in the European Commission.

I have officialy declared the subject of my dissertation on the 28th of January 2009 and i proceed with my research. I have already prepared a Research Description which may be downloaded here. Although this was not included in the typical obligations of the research scheme, i considered it as essential and meaningful. It is an important step to gather your thoughts and original ideas and put them in a structured way in a piece of paper. This could turn in a useful tool for further reference and guidance.

In parallel i am studying on the literature of the dissertation, trying to organise it with the help of literature taxonomy technique. It is essential and useful since this will provide me with a number of important points on the selected subject (Recycling Stock Market). During the phase of research proposal i am ending with new and interesting resources, especially books and reports that will support and drive my whole effort. New points, additional ideas, combinations are some of the elements that have enriched my thoughts so far, due to these resources.

On the 12th of March i have submitted the Research Proposal which could be downladed from here.

On the 30th of June i have submitted the Dissertation Interim Report, which could be downloaded from here.

	The Dissertation was submitted on 30th of November 2009 and you may find it here.

Below is the section where i am giving some of the most important literature that i have used for the dissertation..

LITERATURE

Logistics	Reverse Logistics and Closed Loop Supply Chain Processes by Donald F. Blumberg, 2005
Recycling	Improving Recycling Markets, OECD 2006 (Organization for Economic Co-operation & Development)
Sustainable Communities	Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens and their Governments, book from Roseland Mark, 2005
Investing	The Psychology of Investing, book by John Nofsinger, 2005
Community Investments	Evaluating Social Funds: A Cross-Country Analysis of Community Investments, by Rawlings B. Laura, Sherburne-Benz Lynne and Van Domelen Julie (This is a study made for the World Bank), Research Report 2004
Recycling & Trading	Recycling and International Trade Theory, by Tanigaki Kazunori, Journal article, 2007
Recycling Industry	Imperfect Competition in the Recycling Industry, by Thomas Eichner, Journal article, 2005
SMEs and access to financial support	Handbook on Community State Aid Rules for SMEs (Including Temporary State Aid Measures to support access to finance in the current financial and economic crisis), by Commission of the European Communities, January 2009 / can be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/studies_reports/sme_handbook.pdf
Environment	Notices from European Union Institution and Bodies: Community Guidelines on State Aid for Environmental Protection, by Commission of the European Communities, April 2008 / can be found at: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2008:082:0001:0033:EN:PDF
Innovation	European Innovation Scoreboard 2008: Comparative Analysis of Innovation Performance, by Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Center on Innovation and Technology, January 2009 / can be found at: http://www.proinno-europe.eu/EIS2008/website/docs/EIS_2008_Final_report.pdf
Investing	Cohesion Policy: investing in the real economy, by Commission of the European Communities, 2008 / can be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/funds/recovery/doc/16122008_comm_en.doc
Sustainability and Innovation	Informal Seminar on Sustainability and the Role of Innovation Policies in the Current Financial Crisis, by Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), February 2009 / can be found at: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/31/34/42230480.pdf
Ethics	The Ethics of Globalization, book by Peter Singer, 2002
	IT Ethics Handbook: Right and Wrong for IT Professionals, book by Stephen Northcutt, The SANS Institute
ICT and Investments	Managing ICT Investments in Successful Enterprises, book by Sam Lubbe, 2007
Stock Market	Trusting the Stock Market, Journal article by Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales, December 2008
	more to come...