Scaling Sustainability Innovation
Location
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
About the Sustainability Research Conference Series
The Stanford Initiative on Business and Environmental Sustainability Research Conference Series is hosted by Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
Stanford Ecopreneurship Programs, a partnership between Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Doerr School of Sustainability, is pleased to host a conference on the subject of Scaling Sustainability Innovation.
This conference seeks to bring together leading academic scholars, sustainability-focused entrepreneurs [aka ecopreneurs] and business leaders to share challenges and best practices in scaling sustainability innovation. This knowledge-sharing aims to generate new holistic understanding about effective strategies and practice when scaling sustainability innovation in a variety of contexts, to accelerate a multi-trillion dollar transition to address current global climate and sustainability challenges and create a future where humans and nature thrive in concert and in perpetuity.
Key themes of discussion include (but are not limited to):
- Various pathways to scale sustainability innovation, spanning startups, established for-profit corporations, nonprofits, governments, universities, etc.
- The role that people/leadership development has in scaling sustainability-focused innovations/organizations
- The role that various forms of capital play at different stages of scaling sustainability innovation
- The role that various forms of partnerships play at different stages of scaling sustainability
- How entrepreneurs and business owners navigate their relationship with government at different stages of scaling
The conference will also include an Innovation Expo, aimed at showcasing sustainability innovation coming out of Stanford’s ecosystem and fostering fruitful connections between ecopreneurs, investors, and partners.
