Sustainable Innovation Learning Lab
The Sustainable Innovation Learning Lab (SILL), founded by Stuart Hart, is a membership-based consortium of companies, NGOs, multilateral organizations, and universities. Members work together to better understand the processes involved in the creation and commercialization of next generation, inherently clean business models, technologies, products and services.
The SILL's mission is to help move companies beyond incremental improvements associated with eco-efficiency, pollution prevention, and product stewardship strategies. The SILL seeks to catalyze the development of new skills and capabilities necessary for innovation and organizational change which impacts the world's most pressing environmental and social problems.
Initiatives
- Sustainability Drivers - to articulate the key drivers of sustainability in ways that make sense to today's business managers and resonate with their current stakeholders
- Innovation for Sustainability - to delineate the unique attributes of sustainability that require special attention in the corporate innovation process
- Sustainable Innovation Protocol - to develop tools, techniques and processes for better identifying, evaluating and commercializing sustainable innovations
- Policy for Sustainable Innovation - to determine how companies can most effectively influence public policy to move toward sustainable innovation
Membership
Benefits include:
- Access to low-risk, innovative processes for idea generation, information gathering, and experimentation in sustainable innovation
- Access and involvement in applied research on sustainable technology commercialization
- Interaction with thought leaders, faculty, and staff engaged in sustainability, innovation, and technology commercialization
- Preferred access to the Center for partnering to conduct sustainable innovation projects
- A vehicle for elevating awareness and development of an internal network of sustainable innovation champions for projects and programs in their organization
Contact
Monica Touesnard
Managing Director of Learning Labs
mat59@cornell.edu
+1-607-255-6171