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.

Progress2 Impact旨在为联合国可持续发展目标建立一个捐赠众筹平台，该目标将早期影响力与全球捐助者社区联系起来，以推动可持续发展目标。鉴于Covid19，已经出现了采用更集中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在环境清洁，可持续性和包容的就业和增长，以实现零野心的目标，并在Covid19后“更好地建立更好”。我们将进行一项可行性研究，以创建“虚拟企业家生态系统”，目的是要深入了解特定客户群，可取性，可取性，功能，以支持英国公共部门的野心，以实现使用清洁技术实现英国清洁策略的雄心。 **问题声明**初创企业和规模对于推进英国经济/工业战略很重要；分享该国面临的社会和环境问题的关键以及为什么要特别影响初创企业是经济复苏的关键。初创企业受到Covid19的严重影响，整个一代可能永远不会扩展。凭借持续的流动性限制，需要建立一个企业家生态系统支持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. Nexus将是一个众筹的技术平台，促进了资金流向Impact Ventures。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访问权。第1阶段将使用基于IDEO方法的敏捷，精益初创企业和以人为中心的原则进行生态系统的可行性研究。该项目的第1阶段将持续3个月。它将着重于收集市场需求的证据以及研发，以支持一项业务案例，以开发“虚拟企业家生态系统”所需的进一步投资，该计划以公共和私营部门利益相关者的捐款形式重新分配了财务资源（预种植），以影响阶段和网络型号的企业型企业，并为阶段提供了2个阶段的企业，并提供了2个阶段，以提供阶段的量表，并提供了2个阶段。该平台将嵌入策划机制，以确保（1）（1）对可持续发展目标的预期可测量影响，（2）创始人的包容性，（3）区域平衡，（4）解决清洁技术创新，净零野心目标结果。