Content and themes in Build for Earth

The Build for Earth program was created together with global experts from business areas of innovation, start-up, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and psychology, and some of these experts have also contributed as lecturers during the Build for Earth program. To mention a few here, we interviewed Marie Claire Maxwell, Dr. Rafat Malik, Maya Moukbel, and David Brohede (full list in the Appendices). These experts’ experiences and learnings from successful innovation endeavors were crucial to the development of the acceleration program. The content was carefully selected to provide an optimal setup for the participating teams with the aim of fast-forwarding the development of the teams and their solutions into actual products and services for sustainability.

To choose what to include and prioritize in the Build for Earth acceleration program, we also turned to science. Data on start-ups and new venture teams is not the most encouraging read...