ESRC Seminar Series (2015-16) Green Innovation � Making it Work

ESRC Seminar Series: Green Innovation - Making it Work

Led by: Professor David J. Smith (Nottingham Business School), Dr Richard Blundel (The Open University Business School), Professor Robert Ackrill (Nottingham Business School).

This series of six seminars  brings together academics and practitioners interested in pro-environmental innovation with a focus on the factors that facilitate and constrain its practical application. It will promote a deeper understanding of the institutional and infrastructural changes required in both developed and developing country contexts. We have adopted the deliberately broad and populist term "green innovation" (Schiederig et al., 2012), to signal its role as a forum for the interchange of ideas and research findings between academics from different disciplines and institutions, and practitioners working in fields such as energy and transport, which have significant environmental impact.

Seminar two: ‘Green Business Models and Strategies’

The programme for the second seminar in the series entitled ‘Green business models and strategies’ can be dowloaded below. The first page showing the programme for the day can be used as a poster. Further details and a short video of the first seminar in the series will shortly be available at: www.open.ac.uk/esrc-green-innovation

To book a place for the seminar on 6th July 2015, please contact: [email protected]

Future seminars

The remaining four seminars will address the following topics:

• Policy perspectives and initiatives (UKRO, Brussels)
• Green innovation applications: energy (London – venue TBC)
• Green innovation applications: mobility (The Open University, Milton Keynes)
• Deconstructing green innovation: implications for policy and practice (NTU, Nottingham)

The final seminar will draw these themes together, debate the implications, and propose an outline agenda for policy and practice