Sustainable Entrepreneurship

The course offers literature, case studies and tools supporting student learning throughout their entrepreneurial journey. By participating in the course, students will collaborate with impact entrepreneurs and organizations on:

1. The formulation of a societal challenge that can be turned into a business opportunity;
2. The development and validation of a sustainable business model idea tackling the formulated societal challenge;
3. The creation and presentation of a business plan, leading to the development of a new impact startup.

The general course objective is to create a sustainable entrepreneurship lab offering a stimulating and hands-on educational environment, where students work, in collaboration with impact entrepreneurs and other stakeholders, on impactful startup ideas contributing to societal grand challenges (like the ones represented by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals) and the regeneration of environmental and social systems.

Lectures going through theory and examples, in parallel with project work in groups.