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

在英国实现环境清洁、可持续和包容性的就业和增长。

• 批准号: 82896
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: PROGRESS2IMPACT LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=82896
• 关键词: Enabling; environmentally; clean; sustainable; inclusive

Progress2Impact aims to create a donation crowdfunding platform for the UN Sustainable Development Goals connecting early-stage impact ventures with a global community of donors to advance the SDGs. In light of COVID19, the need has emerged to adopt a more focused approach to support Government efforts in economic recovery. The proposed solution aims to create jobs and growth that are environmentally clean, sustainable and inclusive to achieve the net zero ambition targets and 'build back better' post-COVID19\. We will conduct a feasibility study for the creation of a 'virtual entrepreneurial ecosystem' with the aim of obtaining an in-depth understanding of specific customer segments, desirability, functionalities required to support the UK public sector in its ambition towards achieving the UK Clean Growth Strategy using CleanTech. **PROBLEM STATEMENT** Startups and scaleups are important to advancing the UK economy/Industrial Strategy; key to sharing the social and environmental problems the country (will) face(s) and why specifically impact startups are key to economic recovery. Startups are heavily affected by COVID19, an entire generation may never scaleup. With persistent liquidity constraints, there is a need for building an entrepreneurial ecosystem supportive of impact startups. **SOLUTION** The entrepreneurial ecosystem 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 SDG agenda, including venture philanthropist, corporates, public agencies and impact investors. The nexus will be a crowdfunding technology platform facilitating the flow of funds towards the impact ventures. Access to these stakeholders will be ensured by Oxford University Innovation and the European Venture Philanthropy Association. Phase 1 will carrying out a feasibility study for the ecosystem, using principles of Agile, Lean Start-up, and Human Centred based on IDEO methodology. Phase 1 of the project will last a total of 3 months. It will focus on collecting evidence of market demand, alongside R&D, to support a business case for further investment required to 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 in their trajectory of CleanTech Innovation and net zero ambition targets and providing scaleup support to be tested in Phase 2\. The platform will embed a curation mechanism to select startups ensuring (1) anticipated measurable impact on SDGs, (2) inclusiveness of founders, (3) regional balance, (4) addressing Cleantech Innovation, the net zero ambition target outcomes.

Progress 2 Impact旨在为联合国可持续发展目标创建一个捐赠众筹平台，将早期影响企业与全球捐助者社区联系起来，以推动可持续发展目标。鉴于COVID-19，有必要采取更有针对性的方法来支持政府在经济复苏方面的努力。拟议的解决方案旨在创造环境清洁、可持续和包容的就业和增长，以实现净零目标，并在COVID-19后“重建得更好”。我们将进行一项可行性研究，以创建一个“虚拟创业生态系统”，目的是深入了解特定的客户群，需求，支持英国公共部门实现使用清洁技术实现英国清洁增长战略的雄心所需的功能。** 问题陈述 ** 初创企业和规模扩大对推进英国经济/工业战略很重要;分享国家（将）面临的社会和环境问题的关键，以及为什么具有特定影响力的初创企业是经济复苏的关键。初创公司受到COVID 19的严重影响，整整一代人可能永远不会扩大规模。由于持续的流动性限制，有必要建立一个支持影响力初创公司的创业生态系统。** 解决方案 ** 创业生态系统将把来自英国顶尖大学（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）的影响力初创企业与具有可持续发展目标议程的公共和私人捐助者（包括风险慈善家、企业、公共机构和影响力投资者）联系起来。nexus将是一个众筹技术平台，促进资金流向影响企业。牛津大学创新和欧洲风险慈善协会将确保与这些利益攸关方的接触。第一阶段将对生态系统进行可行性研究，使用基于IDEO方法的敏捷，精益创业和以人为本的原则。该项目的第一阶段将持续3个月。它将专注于收集市场需求的证据，以及研发，以支持开发“虚拟创业生态系统”所需的进一步投资的商业案例，该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财务资源（种子前），以影响初创公司的清洁技术创新和净零野心目标，并提供将在第二阶段测试的规模扩大支持。该平台将嵌入一个策展机制，以选择初创企业，确保（1）对可持续发展目标的预期可衡量影响，（2）创始人的包容性，（3）区域平衡，（4）解决清洁技术创新，净零野心目标成果。