Achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals is a huge market opportunity for business. As part of Project Breakthrough, Volans and the UN Global Compact have been speaking to leading innovators to find out what it will take to seize this opportunity. Whilst a lot has been said about the role of technology in creating the necessary solutions, less has been said about the role of business models in connecting those solutions with market demand. Here our interviews offer some insight into what these business models will look like.
Read more in Fast Company: We Need Breakthrough Business Models, Not Breakthrough Technology
With thanks to our interviewees:
Marcus Shingles, XPRIZE
Rachel Botsman, Collaborative Economy
Andrew McAfee, MIT
Darlene Damm, Singularity University
Herman Narula, Improbable
Taavet Hinrikus, TransferWise
Marie Kyle, BIMA
Daniel Becerra, BuffaloGrid
Francesco Starace, Enel Group
Josh Tetrick, JUST
Patrick Thomas, Covestro
Jessi Baker, Provenance
John Elkington, Volans
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