Why focus on 'Sustainable Growth through Innovation'?

The global crisis and the climate crisis have created a new awareness of the fact that we have to come up with solutions that are long-term and sustainable financially, socially and environmentally. With 'Sustainable growth through innovation' as a cross-disciplinary theme at BSS, we wish to contribute to solving these global issues. Consequently, this theme works as a mindset for our priorities and actions, as an academic focus for our research and as a consistent element in our studies and communication.

Innovation figures as a central element of the theme activities, including the development of new business models for the energy and environmental sector, intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, user-driven innovation and more.

Innovation engine for the BSS cross-disciplinary theme

The theme 'Sustainable growth through innovation' must be developed so that it acts as an innovation engine for the BSS in the form of:

• support of research activities within the theme, including the attraction of external research grants
• support of educational activities and the development of new ones
• development of student activities
• development of BSS as an organisation and the organisation's attitude towards sustainable innovation
• handling of internal and external communication
• partnerships with companies, organisations and NGOs.

Vision

• "The Principles for Responsible Management Education" (PRME) in the UN
• Global Compact (the UN)

The BSS board of directors is the steering group for the theme and its projects. The Department for Communications and Innovation head the project management.

Further information can be found in the theme's terms of reference