Science, Technology and Society

Technological solutions

Ecopreneurship
Entrepreneurs Are Made and Not Born
• “The entrepreneurial mystique? It’s not
magic, it’snot mysterious and it has
nothing to do with the genes. It is a
discipline. And like any discipline, it can
be learned.”
…Peter Drucker
Enterpreneur
a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on
greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
 Technopreneurship
➢ is the process and formation
of a new business that
involves technology.
➢ use technological
innovations and translate
such technology into
successful products or
services.
 Technopreneur
are entrepreneurs who used “technology” as their driven factor in transforming
resources into goods and services creating an environment conducive to
industrial growth.
It means a business that using technology as their business model.
• Successful technopreneurs like Sergey Brin
and Larry Page or Bill Gates, even John
Francis Queeny, founder of multinational
agricultural biotechnology corporation
(Monsanto), or Friedrich Bayer, founder of
pharmaceutical company (Bayer), are few
giants among millions of technopreneurs
in the world.
•
 What is Ecopreneur?
➢ is derived from two terms
which are 'entrepreneur’
and 'ecology’
➢ An entrepreneur whose
business efforts are not only
driven by profit, but also by
a concern for the
environment.”
 What is Ecopreneur?
• an individual who is focused on
ecologically-friendly issues and
causes, attempting to do business
in a way which benefits the
environment.
• No matter what the business or the
industry, all ecopreneurs have one
thing in common: they put the
planet before profits
The driving forces behind ecopreneurship
 Global population growth
• find ways to conserve energy,
materials, and resources by
developing new technologies
or finding ways to control birth
rate and finding ways to
meet the food and shelter
demand for the growing
population in order to make
sustainability possible.
 Increasing life expectancy
Ecopreneurs value life, not only their own and of family
members, but of the whole humanity.
Climate change
• In order to sustain the
climate, ecopreneurs
are involved in finding
alternate ways to
produce energy such as
using wind, water
and solar energy.
 Resource scarcity
• The diminishing natural resources
are great issue as we will be left with
no natural resources if we do not
sustain them.
• In order to sustain them,
ecopreneurs constantly look for
alternatives by recycling them or
using a cheaper, abundantly
available resources if possible.
Lack of equity in the world

• the people of the world are living

in a continuum, with one
end which has all the facilities of
the world including the best
quality food, water and home,
while on the other end are
people who do not even have
the basic necessities of life.
 Lack of equity in the world
• Ecopreneurs want to
make sure that every
living being on the
world is treated equally
so that no one
is deprived of anything
PRINCIPLES OF
ECOPRENEURSHIP
Energy and Resource Use Efficiency and Maximization

•
'In nature, one-way linear
flows do not long survive. Nor,
by extension, can they long
survive in the human
economy that is a part of the
earth’s ecosystem’.
Energy and Resource Use Efficiency and Maximization

•
The challenge: redesign the
materials economy so that it is
compatible with the
ecosystem.
• minimizing waste production
and maximizing reuse of waste
streams, sustainable business
can potentially significantly
increase profit.
Ecosystem Services
•
Services related to
protection of ecosystem
and natural resources and
preventing environmental
degradation can be an
inspiration for a green
business idea for
ecopreneurs.
Thank you !