ENVIRONMENTALLY-DRIVEN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Higher education institution
Linköping University, Sweden
Department
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Academic team
Prof Dr Olof Hjelm
Carina Sundberg
Every year, 15 to 30 students at Linköping University receive the opportunity to participate in the course ‘Environmentally-driven Business Development’ which incorporates elements of challenge-based learning (CBL). The course aim is to develop the capabilities to formulate and plan a business solution for an environmental problem. Theories and practical examples are presented at lectures. Seminars are arranged to further support student learning. In a group assignment, a sustainable business idea is planned and described in collaboration with a business partner.
After course completion the student shall:
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- be able to explain and reflect upon relevant theories and concepts in the area of sustainable entrepreneurship
- be able to account for drivers and hinders for environmentally-driven business development
- be able to account for critical factors for the establishment of an entrepreneurial venture and have some ability to collect and analyse relevant information for that purpose
- combine knowledge about environment and environmental technology with innovation and
entrepreneurship - describe and motivate a tentative business solution to an environmental problem
Students
Business Solutions
Business partner
- Environmental sustainability – 100%
- SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY – 50%
- ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY – 100%
Energy
Sustainable consumption
Recycling
Energy and environmental management
Waste as a resource
Waste prevention
Circular solutions
“I’m very happy about the outcomes of the ScaleUp4Sustainability project in which we developed innovative programmes in student-business collaboration for sustainability. I hope it will inspire others to combine the three buzzwords “innovation”, “entrepreneurship” and “sustainability”, because there are a lot of sustainability challenges out there that we need to solve.”
Prof Dr Olof Hjelm, Professor of Environmental Technology and Management and responsible for the course ‘Environmentally-driven Business Development’ at Linköping University
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ScaleUp4Sustainability – Environmentally-driven Business Development
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The platform was created as part of the ScaleUp4Sustainability project. ScaleUp4Sustainability (Project Reference: 601150-EPP-1-2018-1-DE-EPPKA2-KA) is funded by the Erasmus+/Knowledge Alliance Programme of the European Union.