Innovation Models For Clean Growth

The BusinessGreen website looked at different approaches to driving sustainable innovation for big business. One approach is open innovation. Businesses often have an inherent reluctance to share ideas, but sustainable solutions frequently require fresh perspectives to maximize an idea’s potential. Collaborating beyond an individual company – and even across sectors and disciplines – allows these perspectives to help shape a green idea into a compelling business model. One company is working with a group of start-ups  to define common challenges and then tackle them together. Another enables large corporates, including to work in partnership to reduce the costs and environmental impacts of their buildings; through innovations in energy, waste, water, productivity and wellbeing.

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