This free online course, Sustainable innovations in enterprises, introduces you to the importance of sustainable innovations, the role it plays in commercial and social enterprises and the importance to society. It explores cases of sustainable innovationsin specialist areas – arts and humanities; science, technology and engineering; health & social care. The course also evaluates three methods for measuring the societal impacts of sustainable innovations. Learners are encouraged to reflect on theirown experiences of cases where sustainable innovations drive success or failures in enterprises and how the positive impacts on society can be evaluated and sustained.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Initial impressions and experiences
- 1 Initial impressions and experiences
- 1.1 Definitions and types of innovation?
- 1.2 Six types of innovation
- 1.3 Personal development planning
- The Big Five Model
- 2 Sustainable innovation in different specialisms
- 2 Sustainable innovation in different specialisms
- 2.1 What are societal challenges?
- 2.2 Connecting societal challenges with sustainable innovation
- Incorporating sustainability into an organisation
- 2.3 Developing next-practice sustainability strategy
- 3 Measuring the impact of sustainable innovation
- 3 Measuring the impact of sustainable innovation
- 3.1 What is social impact?
- 3.2 Approaches to measuring and evaluating social impact
- The life cycle assessment (LCA)
- Levi Strauss case study
- The triple bottom line
- Social performance scorecard
- 3.3 Your approach to sustainable innovation
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements
