Framing Sustainability Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Key Takeaways

• Business systems and the economy are subsystems of the biosphere.
• Businesses, including companies and supply chains and their interdependent ties to natural systems, like those natural systems, are composed of material, energy, and information flows.
• Mutually reinforcing compatibility between business and natural systems supports prosperity while sustaining and expanding the goods and services ecosystem services provide.
• Biologically inspired business models and product designs can offer profitable paths forward.
• Constraints, rather than limiting possibilities, can open up new space for business innovation and redesign.