Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Learn to create and manage sustainable ventures effectively.
This course Sustainable entrepreneurship enables students to discover sustainable entrepreneurship as an academic subject, a practice, and a career option. The course is relevant for all entrepreneurs: those establishing businesses and financial institutions, political entrepreneurs founding movements and parties, people creating NGOs, foundations, religious organisations, think tanks, etc. To understand the “terrain” on which they might operate in the future, students will be introduced to two hierarchies:
1. THE HIERARCHY OF SUSTAINABLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP - in which we address three levels:
- “Entrepreneurship” that is compliant with laws, regulations and good practice in terms of financial, social and environmental sustainability (e.g. CSR, ISO, EMAS);
- “Social entrepreneurship” adds elements such as: altruistic mission; social, cultural and environmental solutions; return to society; next practices; philanthropy; social inclusion; social justice; sustainable community development, etc.;
- “Transformative entrepreneurship” adds an emphasis on transformative change.
Transformative entrepreneurship includes the features of social entrepreneurship, while social entrepreneurship includes the features of entrepreneurship.
2. THE HIERARCHY OF CHANGE – a wide spectrum, in which we address four levels:
- Cosmetic changes
- Reforms
- Innovations
- Transformations
Key topics include:
- Concepts and theories: overview of core concepts ♦ the evolution of sustainability concepts and goals ♦ schools of thought relating to sustainability ♦ integral schools of thought ♦ why sustainable entrepreneurship is needed ♦ transformation projects by students.
- Hierarchies: sustainable entrepreneurship ♦ change ♦ paradigms ♦ value hierarchies (Spiral Dynamics) ♦ the evolution of consciousness ♦ practical implications and examples.
- Sustainable entrepreneurship as a career: ♦ sustainable entrepreneurship as a profession ♦ profession vs. vocation ♦ entrepreneurship vs. intrapreneurship ♦ key work areas of sustainable entrepreneurs ♦ the startup scene.
- Dispositions and aptitudes for sustainable entrepreneurship: skills, competences, capabilities, character, human qualities and motivations needed for sustainable entrepreneurs ♦ different meanings of success ♦ higher human potential and higher stages of sustainable entrepreneurship.
- Education for sustainable entrepreneurs: the three worlds of education (conventional, alternative, transformative) and the making of sustainable entrepreneurs ♦ educational opportunities and educational traps ♦ sustainable entrepreneurship for dropouts.
- Sustainable entrepreneurs as changemakers and gamechangers: cultural creatives ♦ the Pacman Model (status quo keepers, changemakers and gamechangers) ♦ Machiavelli on reformers ♦ Einstein on widening circles of compassion ♦ why change is difficult ♦ what change is needed ♦ visionary entrepreneurship ♦ vision-to-action cycles based on wisdom ♦ impact investment and visionary investors.
- Transformative entrepreneurship in practice: transformative arts ♦ future design, sustainable design, eco-design, integral design, designing regenerative cultures, innovation design ♦ systemic thinking ♦ lateral thinking ♦ design thinking ♦ anticipating the future ♦ learning from the future ♦ integral practical wisdom ♦ social arts ♦ transformation labs ♦ co-creation methodologies ♦ systems mapping tools, sensemaking methods, prototyping ♦ global thinking-local action ♦ ego-systemic vs eco-systemic thinking ♦ transformative leadership ♦ team work, team culture and co-creation ♦ creating collaborations across boundaries ♦ working with diversity ♦ conflict resolution ♦ crisis management and crisis communication ♦ Case study: University for the Future.
- The life and work of sustainable entrepreneurs: biographies of sustainable entrepreneurs.
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