Sustainability Innovation Hub
The Institute is supporting local, national and global organisations to make a positive impact for the benefit of all.
The Hub was co-designed in consultation with businesses and innovation experts. It acts as a centre of activity that brings together researchers from across all disciplines and organisations to nurture ideas, encourages collaboration and supports the adoption of sustainable practices, products or services.
The Hub programme has been designed to help organisations (such as businesses, government and/or social enterprise) develop, with the possibility to fast-track the adoption of sustainable solutions.
The Institute embraces agile innovation practices, collective intelligence and systems thinking approaches to address complex change, transformation and innovation.
In effect, the Hub is a precursor to growing both ‘spin in’ and ‘spin out’ activities in sustainability.
A seven-step methodology underpins how the Sustainability Innovation Hub operates. This method is to select, discover, define, consult, refine, test, and roll out/monitor outcomes.
The initial selection process is very important as it will determine businesses that have a real, tangible reason for making change, and measure whether that change is replicable and scalable with other businesses.
The discovery phase begins by identifying the challenge and articulating the problem statement. This is then followed by a roundtable discussion and brainstorming session at the Institute to define the problem.
During the consultation stage, the Hub community focuses on project co-design, systems thinking and identification of solutions.
The benefits of the Hub include being fully-costed, forming consortiums to work at scale, adding seed funding from the Institute to support project management and providing income for Fellows, in addition to the Institute.
We will look at, for example, whether sustainability is part of the organisation's strategic priorities, whether there is funding available to facilitate the transformation, and whether there are people within the team with roles dedicated to sustainability."
