A workshop was held in relation to Work Package 6 (Policy Integration) and took place in Copenhagen in June 2018. The workshop was attended by members of the ENERGISE project’s Policy and Decision-making Forum (PDF) and facilitated by staff from WP6 lead partner Kingston University.
The workshop emphasised the importance of imaginaries, framings and stories of energy demand reduction policy and local sustainable energy consumption initiatives.
These are implicated with what is seen as desirable directions for society, appropriate policy foci, legitimate actors, necessary actions and required knowledge to inform policy development. Delegates underlined the need to build networks of diverse stakeholders and the need for researchers to adapt methods of engagement or translation of findings according to the type of stakeholder and they knowledge they need. These and other key points should inform forthcoming work on policy integration led by Kingston University.
Beyond 2020 Sustainable Entrepreneurship workshop, London, June 2018
A workshop was organised by the ISBE special interest group for social and sustainable enterprise, which is chaired by Audley Genus. It took place on 8 June, 2018 and was held at Cecil Sharp House in London.
The workshop aimed to identify an agenda for future sustainable entrepreneurship research. The workshop delegates included a mix of researchers and practitioners, who discussed where sustainable entrepreneurship may or should go in the next decade.
Some of the elements of the agenda included further development of work on: approaches to understanding how SMEs and others conceive of sustainable entrepreneurship; the sources of institutions and values implicated with sustainable entrepreneurship and how these be embedded or reconfigured; and contextualisation of challenges facing sustainability-conscious entrepreneurs and the institutional and innovative work they conduct to surmount these.