This project investigates how regenerative entrepreneurs and impact investors can accelerate the transition to a regenerative economy. Although investors are willing to support this transition, existing knowledge, structures, and routines pose barriers. In a transition arena, 10 entrepreneurs and 5 financiers collaborate to (un)learn, experiment, test and validate new forms of financing and corresponding governance. This leads to a more equal relationship in the provision of capital, where impact and return are in the right balance. Through co-creation, the entrepreneurs and financiers share methods and tools to finance concrete cases, thereby increasing access to capital and strengthening the regenerative economy.
Economic transition: the costs and benefits of (in)action
What does an economy look like that focuses not on GDP growth, but on well-being, ecology and justice?
What is needed to achieve this sustainable economy and how is our current economic system holding back these changes?
We are exploring these questions from a practical perspective as part of the program: ‘Economic transition: the costs and benefits of (in)action’. Together with partners from academia, the professional sector, government and social movements, we are working to shape this transition, set it in motion and anchor it. In doing so, we actively apply knowledge in practice to bring about a transformation of our current economic system.