Center For Sustainable Enterprise - Principal Activities

Principal Activities

While specific projects depend on the interests of participants, the community and funding support, the CSE performs the following activities:

• Common Ground: The CSE serves as a forum where groups can collaborate to remove barriers to achieving ecological and economic sustainability while learning, teaching and sharing the elements of sustainable enterprise.
• Executive Education: Educate, sensitize and empower key corporate executives/managers and small/medium business owners with practical and equitable business strategies that foster ecological and economic sustainability.
• Educational Support: Provide sustainable enterprise instruction, curricula and internship projects to university-based programs and community colleges within the Greater Chicago Area.
• Commercial Applications of Research: provide the platform for quick and efficient transfers of university-based research and proven industry-based applications to companies, especially small and medium enterprises.
• Focused Business Support: Work with existing businesses and organizations to develop the tools for success in an emerging, sustainable economy.
• New Business Development: Incubate start-up companies that promote sustainable environmental technologies and practices.
• Research: Gather data on current use of elements of sustainability and develop reliable metrics and feedback loops that demonstrate the benefits related to the use of sustainable strategies.
• Information Sharing: Expand the benefits of the learning and teaching efforts of the center by sharing the systems, methods, and technologies developed through the center with other organizations and businesses, locally and nationally.