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The Tools & Business Practices to Promote Sustainable Product & Business Model Innovation
Most business leaders and entrepreneurs publicly declare their support for “sustainability”, which essentially requires a company to...
Robert Gerlach
Feb 2, 2019


The Digital Product Ethics Canvas
Digital products and services can not only benefit our lives, they can also harm us. This is because social media and consumer-facing...
Robert Gerlach
Jan 25, 2019


4 Ways Digital Health Companies Can Help Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
One of the reasons sustainability is often not taken seriously in business is that executives think “there is nothing we can do to...
Robert Gerlach
Jan 7, 2019


The Sustainability SWOT Analysis - A tool for Strategic Sustainability Management & Innovation
The Sustainability SWOT analysis is a tool for strategic sustainability analysis and decision-making.
Robert Gerlach
Dec 20, 2018


Sustainable Innovation as an Antidote to Corporate Short-Termism
In the late 1960s, Stanford Professor Walter Mischel conducted a series of experiments with children involving rewards in form of sweets....
Robert Gerlach
Aug 3, 2018


Long-term solutions to sustainable fisheries
Unless we act now, scientists speculate that, due to unsustainable fishing practices, seafood may disappear by 2048. This would not only
Marika Vilisaar
May 21, 2018


Short-termism led us into the Anthropocene
It is rare for geologists to grab headlines, but of late the geology discipline has caught the attention of the press the world over.
Laurie Laybourn-Langton
Oct 31, 2017


Behavioural Economics and the rise of “Nudge”
Using behavioural economics to inform policies has been on the rise in recent times. With the setting-up of “nudge units” across the United
Feroza Sanjana
May 21, 2017


Playing games to facilitate Sustainable Product and Business Innovation
The Sustainability Impact Canvas (SIC) and the Sustainable Business Model Canvas (SBMC) are two fundamental tools for sustainable product...
Robert Gerlach
May 2, 2017


Sustainable Product & Business Model Design as a Driver for Innovation
Many factors should encourage businesses to adopt sustainable technological innovations, such as tightening regulations, consumer demand...
Robert Gerlach
Apr 7, 2016
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