Green Entrepreneurship, a new report from the Entrepreneurs Network and the Enterprise Trust examines how entrepreneurs, and their innovative technologies and ideas, can help deliver not only a more sustainable tomorrow, but also economic growth, exports, and jobs.
To help inform our research, we partnered with Opinium to poll over 500 small and medium-sized businesses in Britain about their attitudes towards various environmental questions. We also set out twenty policy recommendations to harness the creativity of entrepreneurs to tackle major environmental problems such as climate change, air pollution, and resource misuse.
Luke Pollard is the Shadow Environment Secretary. He has been the Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport since 2017.
Luke started his career in children’s television working for Carlton Television helping to make children’s television shows for ITV. He went on to work for David Jamieson, who was the Labour MP for Plymouth Devonport, and Scottish MP George Foulkes (now Lord Foulkes). Luke worked on the 2005 General Election campaign in Labour’s Headquarters in London before beginning a role with Edelman, the global communications firm.
In 2009 Luke took up a role with ABTA, the holiday trade body and worked in London and Brussels until leaving the role in 2014 to become a full-time candidate for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport in the run up to the 2015 General Election.
Alex Fisher is Founder & CEO of Saturn Bioponics, an agri-catalyst programme based in Birmingham. It developed a technology involving 3D hydroponic towers, the Saturn towers, which allows it to grow food while using less resources and achieving higher productivity than traditional soil farming.
Alex has driven the Saturn Grower technology from initial experiments through to a market ready product. He has significant experience in all aspects of the technology and its application in the commercial growing market place. He is working with some of the UK's leading horticultural crop growers, processors, industry figures and researchers, as well as with commercial partners in international markets.
Liz Slee is Director of Research and PR at the Enterprise Trust. Liz is a former journalist with a background in enterprise PR. She directs and conducts research into business finance, the environment and seeking better understanding of the contribution small businesses can make to the UK economy now and in the future. She blogs on these topics as well as female entrepreneurship and the pillars of success for small businesses.
Eamonn Ives is the author of Green Entrepreneurship and a business researcher at the Centre for Policy. He specialises in energy and environmental policy and sits on the advisory board of Climate Assembly UK, and previously worked as a Researcher for Bright Blue, where he authored five publications. Eamonn frequently writes comment articles in the media.