ESM102/week7-201701/outline-links.html

Opening slide

Main points today

• business can be a force of good
• combining social and environmental outcomes can raise the complexity of a problem
• exciting area to consider for solutions

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Week 7: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurism

Some problems can be addressed using market forces and institutions

• review types of environmental problems
• approaches in general
• niche for using environmental entrepreneurism
• environmental entrepreneurism
• social entrepreneurism
• key aspects
  • environmental problem
  • business strategy
  • implementation

example 1: GoBox - http://www.goboxpdx.com
example 2: Arcimoto - http://www.arcimoto.com

How social and environmental entrepreneurism works

• failure in market or regulation
• business based strategy/with a business model
• success leads to profits and growth and also imitation
• not just to make a profit --disambiguate from "environmental entrepreneurism"

More examples of successes

• some SEE-examples
• other examples
• categories of problems, failures, business types and benefits
• bigger list of examples by category

Steps and skills to employ SEE

• Project arc
• Role of science