Companies can build competitive advantages and resilience by developing more sustainable business models (e.g. the sharing economy) and using new technologies (e.g. internet of things or AI).
We will have an overview of what sustainability in business means and entails, analyse and debate more in depth a couple of sectors, and work in groups to explore business opportunities in sustainability.
The course will have In this 6 modules and a short individual post assignment:
- Introduction: sustainability in business
- Analysis of an example sector (1): mobility
- Regulation, technology and the responsible consumer
- Analysis of an example sector (2): health
- Team work:
- Choose and analyse sector
- Groups presentations:
- Identify and describe a sustainable startup business opportunity
- driven by technology
- Post assignment: individual work
