The Energy2B project: stimulating environmental entrepreneurship and building an energy infrastructure through institutional entrepreneurship

Denise Fletcher, Erik Knol and Marcin Janicki

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Abstract: The Energy2B Project is an EU funded innovation stimulating initiative that targets university students at five universities across Europe and encourages them to practice environmental entrepreneurship and turn energy innovation ideas into new business start-ups. The project is administered by a European consortium of commercial and academic co-ordinators through an online web platform. The web-platform is used to develop an energy infrastructure that connects diverse stakeholders (including industrial actors, energy bodies and field experts) through the administration of local idea challenges and energy innovation competitions at a local and European level. In this paper, we discuss how the project contributes to the practice of environmental entrepreneurship and explain the projects theoretical significance as a case of institutional entrepreneurship. We also outline the academic deliverables of the project in terms of individual case studies and a survey that measures the project’s effectiveness in accelerating the practice of environmental entrepreneurship. First results are available in the second quarter of 2011.

Keywords: environmental entrepreneurship; sustainable entrepreneurship; institutional entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 L26 Q01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-11-08
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Published in Proceedings Sustainable Innovation 2010 Creating Breakthroughs: Green growth, Eco-innovation, Entrepreneurship & Jobs (2010): pp. 85-89

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