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GIN2003:
Innovating for Sustainability
11th
International Conference —
The Greening of Industry Network
October 12-15, 2003, Hotel Nikko San Francisco
Tracks and Themes
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For this
year's GIN conference, we have organized the tracks as a series of five
questions, all deriving from our overall theme, Innovating for Sustainability.
What
does sustainability mean for industrial development?
How can institutions and organizations innovate for sustainability?
What can business do to accelerate progress toward sustainability?
How can we accelerate innovation in products and services?
How can we accelerate learning for sustainability?
The wonderful
response to this year's Call for Presentations yielded a true bumper crop
of proposals, from research, business, NGOs, and government; coming from
more than 40 countries; representing the latest research, the newest policy
innovations, fascinating cases, and provocative challenges; to be presented
in structured dialogues, plenary addresses, exchange and learning sessions,
research workshops, solutions workshops, and new this year, a series of
provocative challenges we call the Soapbox Sessions.
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us and be part of Innovating for Sustainability.
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TRACK
1: What does sustainability mean for industrial development?
Sustainability
and Underserved Populations: Sustainable Development in the 3rd World
- Plenary: From the Economy of Scarcity to the Business of Abundance
- Plenary Provocation: Framing Innovation for Sustainability
- Business Opportunities at the Base of the Economic Pyramid: Current
Research & Practice
- Global Division of Labor
- Underserved Populations
- Promoting Sustainable Development: National/International Cooperation
- E-Sustainability or E-Pollution?
- Provocation - Soapbox Sessions: Messin' with the Engine: Re-Inventing
Enterprise in a Time of Global Crisis
Sustainability
& New Venturing
- Frameworks for Sustainability Entrepreneurship - research dialogue
- Case studies in Social and Eco-Entrepreneurship
- Venture Capital's Role
Social
Responsibility & Investing
- Effect of SRI on Firm Behavior
- Effect of SRI on Firm performance
- Transitions toward Sustainability: research needs
- Provocation - Soapbox Sessions: Do the Bonds of International Financial
Institutions Belong in Socially Responsible Funds?
TRACK
2: How can institutions and organizations innovate for sustainability?
Government,
Institutions, and Policy
- Frameworks for Innovation - Structured dialogue
- National Sustainability Strategies - Research workshop
- Policies for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
- Provocation - Soapbox Sessions: Frameworks for Innovation: Business
and the Precautionary Principle: From Divergent Perspectives to an Integrated
Framework
Climate,
Environment, Energy
- Policies for the Natural Environment - Research workshop
- Panel on Climate Change: Strategies and Research Implications
- Selling Energy Efficiency: Challenge and Solutions Workshop
- Research Strategies for Industry Innovation
- New Directions for Energy Policies and Strategies
Voluntary
Approaches
- Plenary: A Bridge Toward a New Environmental Regulation? USEPA's Performance
Track.
- International perspectives - research
- Innovating Environmental Policy
- Voluntary Initiatives as Drivers of Innovation
- Performance Measurement, Management Systems, and Policy Change: A Case
Study of Regulatory Innovation - USEPA
Partnerships:
Public/Private and Non-profit/For-profit
- Government-initiated Public-private Programs
- Seeing Green: Technical Tools and Social Processes for Transparency
and Feedback
- Research workshop on NGO partnerships
Regions
and Communities
- Sustainable Innovation in Regions: Asking all the right questions -
Solutions workshop
- Sustainability for Regional Development: The GIN Project in Chelyabinsk,
Russia
- Going Local: Connect or Disconnect?
- Research Needs for Innovation in Regions
- What do We Learn from Case Studies? Dialogue and solutions session
- Provocation - Soapbox Sessions: Is the Natural Environment a Stakeholder?
Of course it is (no matter what Utilitarians might say)!
TRACK
3: What can business do to accelerate progress toward sustainability?
Measurement,
Performance Indicators, Reporting
- Plenary: First Report on Sustainability Reporting: The View from Thailand
- Why do Companies Measure and Report?
- Using Reporting: Techniques & Cases
- Getting Inside Measurement - Research session
- Measurement Research: The Sector Question
From
EMS to Sustainability
- Studying change: Research Panel on Motivators
- From EMS to SMS? Developing a Sustainability Management Systems Approach
- Sustainability & Sensemaking: An Inquiry into Corporate Environmental
Management Practices
- Environmental Management Systems: Do They and How Can They Drive Innovation?
- Environmental Policy Tools, Innovation and Firm-Level Management
- Provocation - Soapbox Sessions: Can Businesses Move Beyond Efficiency?
The Shift toward effectiveness and Equity in the Corporate Sustainability
Debate.
The Case
for Change: Case Studies
- Elements of Change: Environmental Performance and Sustainability in
the Pulp and Paper Industry
- Case studies: Presentations with structured dialogue
- Demonstrations: Web Innovations for Sustainability
- Transforming Management Practices: Applying European Environmental Management
Approaches in a Thai Context
- What We Learned in the Rainforest - Business Lessons from Nature: Powerful
Systems That Drive Innovation, Adaptation, and Resilience, in Nature and
the Corporate World. Author's report.
Cleaner
Production:
- Innovating for CP Implementation
- From Waste Management to CP
Supply
Chain & LCA
- Roundtable on LCA: Why? How? Documenting Country Experiences
- Transforming Business with Supply Chains
- Theory and Practice in Supply Chains
- Global Chains - Research panel
- Where Can LCA take us?
Wine
Country
- Leading Edge Pro-active Environmental Practices in the Wine Industry
- Poster session and wine tasting
- Environmental Management System Development at Benziger Family Winery:
A Government-Industry Collaboration
- The Wine Industry's Code of Sustainable Practices
TRACK
4: How can we accelerate innovation in products and services?
Products
- Frameworks for Sustainable Product Development
- Sustainable Consumption
- Innovation for Sustainable Products
- Managing Sustainable Products
- Provocation - Soapbox Sessions: Media Attention and the Market for "Green"
Consumer Products
Sustainable
Buildings & Design
- Integrated design
- Buildings, materials and the natural environment
- Retrofitting
Transition
to Sustainable Mobility
- Transition to Sustainable Mobility - Visioning and Backcasting Workshop
- Hydrogen - Research
- Managing Transitions: Regional Re-design - Research
- Managing Transitions: Business Re-design - Research
- Innovating the non-Car
TRACK
5: How can we accelerate learning for sustainability?
Education
- Challenges and Opportunities for Education for Sustainability for the
21st Century!
- Challenges of Integrating Sustainability in the Management Curriculum:
A Global Perspective
- Integrating Sustainability into Professional Education
- International Perspectives on Education for Sustainability
- Innovations in Delivering Education for Sustainability
- Provocation - Soapbox Sessions: Dealing with the Complexity of Sustainability
Organizational
Learning, Capacity, Competencies
- Organizational Theory 10 Years after Gladwin - Research Dialogue
- Responses to External Pressures
- Learning in Sectors
- Learning Inside Corporations
- Capabilities for Innovation
- Learning in Agricultural Systems
- Value Stream Advantage: Collaborating for Sustainability Innovation
& Performance
Draft
July 18, 2003 - Subject to change.
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