Green Entrepreneurship and Systems Innovation

English
GRA 8247
5 Credits

Introduction

This course, conducted in Stockholm, focuses on how you can develop smart green, inclusive ideas and make business models for high sustainability impact. We will visit leading Swedish entrepreneurial networks, such as Norrsken, the “Impact Unicorn Factory” and meet leading impact entrepreneurs, business angels as well as investors. We will also learn more about green design thinking in practice, social entrepreneurship and impact investment, and how companies can approach green innovations from a systemic perspective. We delve into entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, how new green ventures go from seed to growth stage - and from start-ups to scale-ups.

Course content

Theories of innovation in a Green Economy framework
Funding of green innovations: trends and pitfalls
How to run an innovation incubator for impact start-ups
Entrepreneurship vs intrapreneurship: from seed to growth stage, start-ups to scale-ups
The psychological, team challenges and shadow sides of entrepreneurs and start-ups; why do most start-ups fail?
Social entrepreneurship and impact investment
How the Nordic model connects to and drives the sustainability transformation

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