UBI Global – ESG Framework
This project, undertaken for UBI Global, charged me with formulating an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework for use in their 2021 Triumph of Innovation report and integration into their overall incubator and accelerator benchmarking methodology – as seen in the World Benchmark Report 2021-2022. This framework was the first in the field to provide formalised evaluation of the wider social and environmental impacts of incubators and accelerators, specifically. Programs participating in UBI Global’s benchmark are evaluated according to their outputs and outcomes in three key areas – their ecosystems, client startups, and operations.
The framework was presented at the World Incubation Summit in Ghent, Belgium (2023), alongside data insights from the 2021-2022 World Benchmark Study, and to the UN's Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) Assessment Leaders' roundtable.
Based upon the ESG Engagement framework, six incubators/accelerators were awarded recognitions for ESG achievement at the 2023 World Incubation Summit in Ghent, with me shortlisting and cooperatively deciding the awardees, in my role as chair of UBI Global’s ESG Research Advisory Board.
