The ESTT is an ecosystem partner of the Climate Lab, a center for climate innovators that facilitates collaboration between leading companies and relevant public authorities in Austria; creates programs for promising start-ups and scale-ups across Europe; and provides an inspiring space to work, think, meet, and connect at a unique location in Vienna.

This Innovation Talk with the title “Bewertung von Digitalisierungs-Initiativen bei Vattenfall Wärme” was held by Jan Timmermann (Head of Strategy & Business Development) and Dr. Victor Vican (Digital Transformation Consultant) from Vattenfall Wärme. Innovations in the energy industry are not only technical in nature. A core component to ensure future viability for energy suppliers is…

This Innovation Talk with the title “Radical Corporate Innovation in Energy: Success Factors and Best Practices” was held by Dr. Ernesto Ciorra, Chief Innovability Officer (Head of the Enel Group’s Innovability® Function) at Enel. Enel has combined innovation and sustainability in a model called “Innovability”®. Thereby, it follows an “open” approach that leverages an ecosystem…

This Innovation Talk with the title “CVC als Innovationsmotor” was held by Oliver Holle, Managing Director at Speedinvest, a venture capital fund with more than €600m to invest in pre-Seed, Seed, and early-stage tech startups across Europe.  This talk was held as a panel discussion between Oliver Holle, Dr. Franz Zöchbauer (Director Corporate Innovation &…

This Innovation Talk with the title “Ansätze und Trends der dekarbonisierten Wärme” was held by John Werner, Head of Corporate Development & Strategy at Zukunft Gas, an association of 135 leading companies from the gas industry in Germany. This community of all stages of the value chain in the industry is actively committed to shaping…

ESTT member G. Reischauer co-organized the workshop “Creating and Capturing Value with Platforms and Ecosystems: The Road Ahead”. The workshop discussed papers from colleagues around the globe on how to create and capture value with platforms and ecosystems as well as how the field will likely develop in the future, and called for new papers…

ESTT member G. Reischauer co-organized the workshop “Strategizing for Sustainability”. The workshop discussed papers from colleagues around the globe on how to effectively integrate the concepts of sustainability into different strategizing activities of organizations, and called for new papers in these important research fields.

This Innovation Talk with the title “Sustainable Business Model Design – Using Patterns to Create Sustainable Value” was held by Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Professor of Corporate Sustainability at the ESCP Europe School of Business Berlin. His expertise and research focus are in the area of innovative business models in the context of environmental and social sustainability….

The first Innovation Talk in 2022 was held by Richard Stechow, Circular Economy Lead and Managing Innovation Consultant at BMI Lab, a spin-off from the University of St. Gallen. As part of his work, he helped design the Circular Navigator methodology for the systematic development of business models for the circular economy and advises companies…

The fourth Innovation Talk in 2021 was held by Jochen Zemroser and Dr. Mathias Loeser, who are part of ENGIE Impact, an international consulting firm specializing in energy and sustainability management for companies, cities and governments in the energy industry. Mr. Zemroser and Dr. Loeser are both Senior Manager Sustainability Solutions at ENGIE Impact and…