Post Growth Entrepreneurship

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Tuesday 19 March 2024

Location

Craiglockhart Campus room 1/10 and online

Companies are addicted to exponential growth. But is this good for our planet and our society?

Post Growth Economists are talking about the unsustainability of growth for our planet and society. Our never ending quest for growth is causing climate change, human rights violations, threats to biodiversity, and unprecedented waste. During the COVID-19 economic crisis, the decoupling of the real economy from investors was never more obvious. Now is the time to reinvent our economy, and create a new "normal" for doing business.

This session, organised by the Small Business and Enterprise Research Group, will discuss Post Growth Entrepreneurship, an entrepreneurial methodology for creating non-extractive social businesses.

Dr. Melanie Rieback, co-founder of Radically Open Security and Post Growth startup incubator Nonprofit Ventures, will make you question everything that you know about entrepreneurship, provide practical tools for building something different, and offer you a blue pill and a red pill.

Can you go back to "business as usual" again?

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