SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION TOOLS FOR STRATEGIC BUSINESS ALLIANCES

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

Case-based tool development

StratAll has developed a set of case studies that analyse a variety of strategic alliance models. The CSCP is providing case studies that profile leading edge sustainable innovation taking place in a strategic alliance within the German aluminium industry (GDA). Case-based tools are meant to increase the relevance of the tools for the business, consulting, and academic communities.

Creating systematic approaches from a global value chain perspective

The CSCP is developing 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 be empowered 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 are more than ever before spanning borders and are becoming increasingly global in nature. StratAll aims 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 the UNEP /Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP), trifolium, the Institut für Arbeitswissenschaften at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the orglab at the University of Duisburg/Essen. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.