Tools and methods
Tools and methods
Welcome to the Tools and Practical Methods section!
Here you will find helpful tools with different fields of application for download, relating to the topics of developing sustainable business models, climate entrepreneurship and co-creation.
The tools presented below can be filtered according to these areas of application. Simply click on one of the categories.
Sustainability as a success factor
This Sustainability4All brochure provides founders with tools and methods for integrating sustainability.
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Sustainability Challenge
A workshop on sustainability assessment for start-ups that provides an insight into the structure, objectives and benefits of DIN SPEC 90051-1.
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Guidelines for the evaluation of collaborative student-business venturing activities
This handbook supports formative evaluations/assessments of teaching and learning that focus on the collaboration of students and business partners in the development of sustainable business ideas.
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Sustainability Business Canvas
A workshop for creating or discussing sustainability-orientated business models.
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Climate Challenge
With the Climate Challenge, business models can be tested to see to what extent they offer solutions to these challenges.
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Sustainable Value Proposition Designer
Based on the Sustainable Business Canvas as an independent and in-depth method for developing a sustainability-orientated value proposition. Developed in the project context by project partner Borderstep.
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Sustainability assessment of start-ups - The practical tool of DIN SPEC 90051-1
The application guide is intended to provide founders, investors and other users with directional certainty regarding the sustainability potential of start-ups. Clear criteria and a transparent assessment enable the most objective and transparent review possible.
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IMPACT Guide
The impact of start-up support on the market, environment and society has hardly been analysed to date. The IMPACT Guide provides start-up promotion stakeholders, programme managers and accompanying research with impulses, guidance and approaches on how the long-term impact of start-up promotion programmes can be evaluated and managed. Developed in the project context by project partner Borderstep.
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