Accelerating entrepreneurship and innovative solutions to global challenges

We 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. 
 
Our international sustainability innovation community of over 500 entrepreneurs, academics, corporations, and investors is working to scale innovations in products, business models, sectors, and systems. 

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’.