Sustainable Business Practices

InnovationACT 2009 is committed to encouraging socially and environmentally sustainable business practices to University staff and students and the wider business community.  

To that end we strongly encourage teams to:

1. Asses the carbon emissions and environmental impact of their business plan
2. Mitigate and reduce carbon emissions and environmental impact throughout the business plan including, where appropriate:
   • More efficient use of energy for all activities, e.g. building heating and cooling, lighting, IT
   • Purchase of green energy,
   • Raw materials
     (reducing these, sourcing local and sustainable),
   • Product/ service
     (embodied energy, emissions)
   • Distribution (minimising miles travelled, packaging)
   • Waste (minimising, recycling, reusing)
3. Consider the implications of their business plan on both the local community
4. Consider the effect of patenting and IP protection on global development

 

Resources

In addition to seminars additional resources relevent to social and environmentally responsible business practices will be made availible here and on the resources page throughout the program.

Useful Links

Environmental impact mitigation and assesment

ANU Green

Socially responsible licencing

"9 points to Consider"

Berkely Socially Responsible Licencing