SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION TOOLS FOR STRATEGIC BUSINESS ALLIANCES

The Strategic Alliances for Sustainable Development (StratAll) project built strategic alliances between business, the public sector and civil society to drive sustainable innovation. Through this project the CSCP provided business alliances with systematic approaches to extend their scope of focus to encompass the full suite of SCP actions.

 

Case-based tool development

The StratAll consortium developed a set of case studies that analyse a variety of strategic alliance models. The CSCP provided case studies that profile leading edge sustainable innovation taking place in a strategic alliance within the German aluminium industry (GDA). This case base increases the project’s relevance of for business, advisory, and academic communities.

 

Creating systematic approaches from a global value chain perspective

The CSCP developed a set of tools that can analyse and optimise product value chain performance through effective business alliances that benefit alliance parties and external stakeholders alike. Through effective application of the StratAll tools, practitioners will empower themselves to systematically identify and evaluate value chain hot spots and take effective, value-enhancing, corrective measures.

 

Embedding sustainable innovation in the business world of tomorrow

The increasing complexity and specialisation in business today increases the importance of effective strategic alliances. In tandem with this new reality, value chains for an increasing number of products and services more than ever before span borders and become increasingly global in nature. StratAll aimed to identify and capitalise on these new conditions by identifying new points of leverage to enable lasting sustainable innovation.

 

StratAll is a joint project undertaken by the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy in collaboration with

• Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP),
• trifolium
• Institut für Arbeitswissenschaften at the Technical University of Darmstadt
• orglab at the University of Duisburg/Essen

 

The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.