Global Business Launchpad to Address Climate Change - a podcast by Andrea Macdonald Creator ideaXme

Dr Renard Siew, Climate Change Advisor, Centre For Governance and Political Studies Kuala Lumpur and ideaXme Climate Change ambassador, interviews Frans Nauta, founder ClimateLaunchpad www.climatelaunchpad.org and Climate-KIC Accelerator.

Climate-KIC Accelerator is the world's largest support program for clean-tech startups. Over its 8 years of operation it supported more than 1.500 startups, that raised over 1,5 B€ in follow on funding.

ClimateLaunchpad, discussed in this interview is the world's largest green business ideas competition. It operates in 60 countries and has supported more than 3.000 teams.

EIT Climate-KIC:

As deputy director Entrepreneurship of EIT Climate-KIC Frans was responsible for the development of the entrepreneurship centres at the Climate-KIC co-locations and regional centres across the EU and the implementation of the Climate-KIC Accelerator Program. He worked as visiting scholar at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and at Cyclotron Road, the tech startup accelerator program of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Frans Nauta's Earlier Career: Before his work with startups, Frans was secretary for Innovation for the Dutch Prime Minister, a professor of Innovation at HAN University in the Netherlands and the founder of Knowledge Land, the leading Dutch think tank on boosting the knowledge economy. He has been teaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship since 2007 as lecturer at Utrecht University. Frans has been trained at the Harvard Business School in the teaching case methodology and currently teaches entrepreneurship and innovation in executive education programs at UC Berkeley Extension, the Climate-KIC Business School and in the Masters Program of Utrecht University.

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Find the transcript of this interview at www.radioideaxme.com

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