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

Progress2Impact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，以推进可持续发展目标。鉴于气候变化报告19，出现了采取更有重点的办法来支持政府在经济复苏方面的努力的必要性。拟议的解决方案旨在创造环境清洁、可持续和包容性的就业和增长，以实现净零抱负目标，并在COVID19之后“重建得更好”。我们将对创建“虚拟创业生态系统”进行可行性研究，目的是深入了解特定的客户群、可取性和所需的功能，以支持英国公共部门实现利用清洁技术实现英国清洁增长战略的雄心。**问题陈述**初创企业和初创企业对推进英国经济/产业战略非常重要；分享国家(将)面临的社会和环境问题的关键(S)，以及为什么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，整整一代人可能永远不会扩大规模。在流动性持续受限的情况下，有必要建立一个支持影响力初创企业的创业生态系统。**解决方案**创业生态系统将把来自英国顶尖大学(牛津大学、剑桥大学、考文垂大学、北安普顿大学、伯明翰大学、华威大学、克兰菲尔德大学、阿斯顿大学、诺丁汉大学、莱斯特大学、拉格伯勒大学、基勒大学)的Impact初创企业与具有可持续发展议程的公共和私人捐赠者联系起来，包括风险慈善家、企业、公共机构和Impact投资者。纽带将成为一个众筹技术平台，促进资金流向Impact合资企业。牛津大学创新和欧洲风险慈善协会将确保接触到这些利益相关者。第一阶段将在IDEO方法的基础上，利用敏捷、精益创业和以人为本的原则，对生态系统进行可行性研究。该项目的第一阶段将总共持续3个月。它将专注于收集市场需求的证据，以及研发，以支持进一步投资所需的商业案例，以开发一个“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财政资源(种子前)，以影响处于清洁技术创新和净零抱负目标轨道上的初创企业，并提供将在第二阶段测试的扩大支持。该平台将嵌入一个筛选初创企业的管理机制，以确保(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，即净零抱负目标成果。

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.