Enabling environmentally clean, sustainable and inclusive jobs and growth in UK. Development and testing of a ‘virtual entrepreneurial ecosystem’ to connect impact ventures with public and private sector donors to fund SDG aligned initiatives.

*初创企业和规模扩张在英国经济和推进工业战略中占有重要地位。他们也是与政府分享国家将面临的许多社会和环境问题的关键，也是为什么影响力初创公司是国家经济复苏的关键。*初创企业是受covid - 19影响最大的企业之一，整整一代人可能永远无法扩大规模。由于金融市场上可用的流动性有限，因此有必要建立一个创业生态系统，以支持有影响力的初创公司创造环境清洁、可持续和包容性的增长和就业机会。*该项目将开发一个“虚拟创业生态系统”，以公共和私营部门利益相关者捐赠的形式重新分配金融资源（前期种子），以影响初创企业。*创业生态系统将连接来自英国领先大学（牛津、剑桥、考文垂、北安普顿、伯明翰、沃里克、克兰菲尔德、阿斯顿、诺丁汉、莱斯特、拉夫堡、基尔）的有影响力的初创企业，以及与可持续发展目标一致的公共和私人捐助者，包括风险慈善家、企业、公共机构和有影响力的投资者。生态系统的连接将使用众筹技术建立，这将允许资金从捐助者流向有影响力的企业。牛津大学创新和欧洲风险慈善协会将确保与这些利益相关者的接触。*在整个项目中进行的实验研究是基于敏捷、精益启动和以人为本的原则。整个项目将持续9个月。*项目将产生5项关键成果：(1)基于众筹技术的“虚拟创业生态系统”原型；(2)向参与项目的生态系统利益相关者提出可持续发展目标伙伴关系（SDG 17）建议；(3)加速可持续发展目标影响的蓝图，用于更广泛的传播和生态系统建设；(4)基于现有模型、变革理论和联合国商业基准及其在项目期间的实证应用结果，评估影响企业对可持续发展目标的贡献的影响测量工具。(5)一个由OUI选择的牛津创业公司开发的解决孤独感的应用程序组成的平台用例。

* Startups and scaleups have an important weight in the UK economy and in advancing the Industrial Strategy. They are also key to sharing with government many of the social and environmental problems the country (will) face(s) and why impact startups are key to the economic recovery of the country.* Startups are among undertakings most affected by COVID19, an entire generation may never scaleup. With limited liquidity available on the financial markets, there is a need for building an entrepreneurial ecosystem that can support impact startups creating environmentally clean, sustainable and inclusive growth and jobs.* This project will develop a 'virtual entrepreneurial ecosystem' that redistributes financial resources (pre-seed) in the form of donations from public and private sector stakeholders to impact startups.* The entrepreneurial ecosystems will connect impact startups from leading UK universities (Oxford, Cambridge, Coventry, Northampton, Birmingham, Warwick, Cranfield, Aston, Nottingham, Leicester, Lougborough, Keele) to public and private donors with an agenda aligned with the SDGs, including venture philanthropist, corporates, public agencies and impact investors. The nexus of the ecosystems will be built using crowdfunding technology, that will allow the flow of funds from donors to the impact ventures. Access to these stakeholders will be ensured by Oxford University Innovation and the European Venture Philanthropy Association.* The experimental research carried throughout the project is based on principles of Agile, Lean Start-up, and Human Centred. And the project will last a total of 9 months.* The project will produce 5 key deliverables: (1) 'virtual entrepreneurial ecosystem' prototype based on crowdfunding tech; (2) Proposal for SDG Partnerships (SDG 17) to ecosystem stakeholders involved in the project; (3) Blueprint for accelerating SDG impact to be used for broader dissemination and ecosystem building, (4) Impact measurement tool to assess the contribution of impact ventures to the SDGs, based on existing models, theories of change and UN Business Benchmarks and results of its empirical application during the project.(5) A use case of the platform consisting of an app addressing loneliness developed by an Oxford startup selected by OUI.