Speaker: Aoife Brophy, Departmental Research Lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford Title: Business model innovation for sustainable development: Instability, resilience and entrepreneurship in the Ugandan off-grid energy sector

Date/time: Thursday 30 November 2023, 10:30 – 12:30

Venue: Warwick Business School, room 1.001

Bio: Aoife Brophy is Lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise at the University of Oxford, in a joint appointment between the Said Business School and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. She is interested in how to guide innovation in ways that can help society to address some of our most complex sustainable development challenges. Her work focuses on understanding the drivers and outcomes of innovation and entrepreneurship in contexts including off-grid energy in sub-Saharan Africa, sustainable districts in Switzerland and the emerging carbon dioxide removals ecosystem.

Session details:

10:30 - 11:30am: Business model innovation for sustainable development: Instability, resilience and entrepreneurship in the Ugandan off-grid energy sector.

11:30 - 12:30pm: Informal follow-up conversation about researching sustainability in business schools, careers, challenges

Register: Email sib@wbs.ac.ukLink opens in a new window to register your place at the WBS-SRF with Aoife Brophy