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.
Bim Afolami is Conservative Member of Parliament for Hitchin and Harpenden. Afolami was born and raised in Crowthorne, Berkshire. His father Samuel is a Nigerian consultant doctor in the NHS, who moved to the UK in his early twenties. Before he became an MP, he worked as a corporate lawyer at Freshfields and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and then at HSBC.
JoJo Hubbard is CEO and Co-Founder of Electron. Jo-Jo Hubbard. She started her energy career in cleantech financing and investment, specialising in solar, wind and batteries. Jo-Jo spent 2 years at McKinsey focusing on digital transformation before co-founding Electron. She sits on the expert advisory boards for Ofgem, National Grid ESO and Future Cleantech Architects.
Jo Bamford is founder and Executive Chairman of Ryse, responsible for the strategic direction and oversight of the business. He is a board member of one of the UK’s largest industrial conglomerates, JCB and spent eight years as Managing Director of JCB Utility Products. Jo is a clean energy enthusiast and is driven to grow the hydrogen economy, starting with transport.
Helen Booth is CEO of the Enterprise Trust. Helen’s career background is in organisational development and operational management and having grown start-up businesses to a national scale, she uses that insight to direct investment in research and programmes that support innovation and entrepreneurship at every level. She also leads research projects in key areas such as improving training skills and apprenticeships and access to enterprise education for young people.
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, and has featured in CapX, ConservativeHome, CityAM, Reaction, Telegraph Refresh, HuffPost, The Independent, and The Times Red Box.