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Join Bryan Garcia, Program Director of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, Anastasia O'Rourke (PhD Yale University), and their colleagues Paul Jerde (University of Colorado), and Paul Kirsch (University of Michigan) in a professional development workshop that will help participants understand the connection between eco-prizes and innovation systems, cleantech venture capital, local economic development and environmental protection efforts on Saturday, August 8, 2009 from 12:50-2:50 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Chicago in the Wright Room.
The role of prizes, awards, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation has a long- standing history in our society in general and within education more specifically. Today, more than ever, the need for entrepreneurship and innovation is needed to help us solve some of the world’s most pressing environmental problems from global warming and sustainable energy sources to water, biodiversity, and poverty alleviation. Academic institutions are playing an increasing role in initiating and managing prizes and competitions as a format to encourage students, faculty and staff within and across their universities to innovate and create new products, services, and business models. A recent innovation in this setting has been to bring together such prizes and competitions with the intention to stimulate innovations and solutions for solving some of these pressing environmental problems. This PDW gives an overview of the current eco-prize landscape at Universities, and presents and compares three current initiatives being run by leading universities.
ECO-ENTREPRENEURSHIP
For more information on Yale's efforts to advance the field of eco-entreneurship and the Sabin Environmental Venture Prize, go to the following: