Corporate Venturing for Sustainable Development Goals

In this webinar the authors of the HBR article “What holds back Corporate Social Innovators”, explained why it is so hard for corporates to achieve innovations that have both business and societal payoffs and how corporates can overcome these challenges. In the panel discussion good practices where share (e.g. the Social Incubator of DSM)

Many corporates aspire to find innovative solutions to society’s problems as reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Motivated by a growing sense of social responsibility and profit potential, corporates view social and ecological problems as opportunities to develop new products, services, and markets.

In this webinar the authors of the HBR article “What holds back Corporate Social Innovators”, Thijs Gerards (Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Utrecht University) and Maarten van Herpen (social entrepreneur), explained why it is so hard for corporates to achieve innovations that have both business and societal payoffs and how corporates can overcome these challenges.

After their presentation we had interactive virtual roundtable discussions, using the same immersive virtual space we used during our Corporate Venturing & Entrepreneurship Summit 2020. During these discussions experiences and lessons learned were shared and questions were formulated for the panel Besides Maarten and Thijs also Sjaak Griffioen (Director Innovation, Sustainability and Strategy at DSM) and Ling Ling Phung (3rd author of the HBR article and Corporate Social Innovation Expert) joined the panel, sharing their insights on social innovations within corporates.

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