Strategic Innovation for Sustainability

“Sustainability is now the key driver of innovation”. This headline first presented in a Harvard Business Review article in 2009 is being supported by a growing number of business leaders and scientists and will change the way CEO’s are developing their companies’ business models: it means that there is no alternative to sustainable development.

While companies are going through the first stages of linking innovation to sustainability such as viewing compliance as opportunity, making value chains sustainable, and designing sustainable products and services, they are getting nearer to the point where they will develop new business models and even create platforms to enable completely new business ecosystems and industries. The good news for business is that this process is inherent with what business is best at: competing for being smarter, faster, and greater while transforming to the new requirements of a changing world.

The objectives of this Roundtable will include:

• Understanding sustainability as the driver for innovation and business success.
• Building additional competencies on how to incorporate sustainability in your own company’s business model, process and product design.
• Discussing opportunities for cooperation and activating partnerships with business, government, academia, NGO’s and other organizations on strategic innovation for sustainability.

See the agenda and register here