Scaling Sustainability Innovation

Nancy Bell
May 6
2 min read

Kalle Marsal to speak about co-location Carbon Capture and Utilization

Stanford Ecopreneurship Programs, a partnership between Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Doerr School of Sustainability, is pleased to host a conference on the subject of Scaling Sustainability Innovation.

This conference seeks to bring together leading academic scholars, sustainability-focused entrepreneurs [aka ecopreneurs] and business leaders to share challenges and best practices in scaling sustainability innovation. This knowledge-sharing aims to generate new holistic understanding about effective strategies and practice when scaling sustainability innovation in a variety of contexts, to accelerate a multi-trillion dollar transition to address current global climate and sustainability challenges and create a future where humans and nature thrive in concert and in perpetuity.

Kalle Marsal, Carbon Blade CEO, about Carbon Blade's modular, self-contained carbon removal systems that capture CO2 directly from ambient air and then utilize the carbon on-site for agricultural, building materials, and other industrial purposes. Carbon dioxide is a required raw material for many industries and Carbon Blade has a solution that enables co-locating CO2 capture and utilization in a distributed and economically attractive way.

Key themes of conference discussion include (but are not limited to):

Various pathways to scale sustainability innovation, spanning startups, established for-profit corporations, nonprofits, governments, universities, etc.
The role that people/leadership development has in scaling sustainability-focused innovations/organizations
The role that various forms of capital play at different stages of scaling sustainability innovation
The role that various forms of partnerships play at different stages of scaling sustainability
How entrepreneurs and business owners navigate their relationship with government at different stages of scaling

The conference will also include an Innovation Expo, aimed at showcasing sustainability innovation coming out of Stanford’s ecosystem and fostering fruitful connections between ecopreneurs, investors, and partners.