Accelerating entrepreneurship and innovative solutions to global challengesWe foster sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship through our community of founders, startups, corporate intrapreneurs, investors and systems change experts. We support and incubate purpose-led entrepreneurs to accelerate the impact of their ventures and help major organisations harness innovation as an integral part of the transformation for sustainability. We support major organisations in developing commercially relevant approaches to innovation strategy, including collaborative innovation approaches and startup-led open innovation. Our startup accelerators, innovation labs, and international partnerships take a whole-systems view of innovation and build the knowledge, partnerships, and networks needed to achieve change at scale. Our Cambridge innovation hub, CANOPY, is unique in bringing together academia, corporates, and startups with CISL’s global leadership network pioneering sustainability-led innovation, and itself is a ‘living lab’. |
Whether you want to join our startup community and workspace, attend our programmes and events, join our online course for sustainability innovation, or enable industry-level innovation we can work with you to lead the way.
The Canopy
A new Cambridge community for entrepreneurs, startups,
innovators and small businesses pioneering sustainability
innovation.
Accelerator programmes and events
The CISL Accelerator runs a series of online and face to face programmes, events, webinars and hackathons, designed to provide startups and small businesses with the knowledge and skills to advance sustainability.
Global Innovation
Create next-generation products and business models with the world’s most disruptive startup innovators, facilitated by the University of Cambridge's Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).
The Entopia Living Lab will provide a test bed for innovation and communication of new solutions with the potential to drive higher sustainability ambition and impact throughout the built environment.
