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Book SynopsisInnovations and consequently future-fitness must form new models and address existing hurdles and new forms of collaborations. They must enable faster innovation cycles and intelligence mining by combining open and closed source systems, organic communities, open space techniques and cross-fertilization. Innovations must apply to and integrate incubation and acceleration networks. This book explores new concepts for future-fitness with five capitals: financial, ecological, social/cultural, human/personal, and manufactured/technological. It offers a new integral framework bringing researchers and business leaders together in one volume.
Table of ContentsThe purpose of doing business is not business-it is flourishing. PART 1: CLIMATE CHANGE AND ZERO CARBON. Investment Turn Around – A new way of investing based on SDGs. Innovation in the financing of energy efficiency: The Investors’ Confidence project. Green bonds: For you to advertise only? A compact guide through the current state of the green bond market and the conditions for its further development. Pensions in a time of climate change: The inconvenient truth about Fiduciary Duty. Innovative 21st century water utilities. PART 2: IMPACT INVESTING. Social Impact Incentives (SIINC): Enabling high-impact social enterprises to improve profitability and reach scale. University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro (Italy): Social Impact Bond: beyond financial innovation. Swiss Investments for Development: characteristics of a market with strong growth dynamics. PART 3: SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY. Sitting at the Edge Looking for a Way to Create Scaled and Meaningful Impact. STRIDE, UnSchool for Entrepreneurs: From Doing well to doing good. Triple Purpose: Social Capitalism: How capitalism can be transformed and make the world a better place. PART 4: REGIONAL FOCUS ESG IN CHINA. Regulating CSR Disclosure: Quantity or Quality in Practice? Political Connections, Ownership Structure and Performance in China’s Mining Sector. Addressing corporate income tax avoidance in China: using regulatory change to encourage corporate tax sustainability.
