1. Innova&on
for
What?
Presented
by
William
C.
Clark
Harvey
Brooks
Professor
of
Interna9onal
Science,
Public
Policy
and
Human
Development
Harvard
Kennedy
School
of
Government
As
an
Introduc-on
to
the
Session
on
Innova&on:
Pushing
Boundaries
to
Generate
New
Ideas
Interna9onal
Sustainable
Campus
Network
Conference
2014
June
3,
2014
-­‐-­‐
MIT

2. Innova-on
for
What?
Some
Proposi-ons
for
Discussion…
• Sustainable
campus
ini-a-ves
have
made
substan-al
progress
in
selected
areas,
eg.
GHGs
• Depth
of
these
ini-al
efforts
means
many
campuses
have
not
fully
engaged
broader
perspec-ves
on
sustainability
now
infusing
work
of
leading
academics,
corpora-ons,
ins-tu-ons
• Time
to
bring
those
broader
views
back
into
campus
efforts,
thus
promo-ng
balanced
range
of
innova-ons
for
sustainable
development.

3. Innova-on
for
What?
Sustainable
Development
(not
just
GHG
&
greening)
“Environment
is
where
we
live;
development
is
what
we
all
do
in
aVemp-ng
to
improve
our
lot
within
that
abode.
The
two
are
inseparable….”
“Humanity
has
the
ability
to
make
development
sustainable:
To
ensure
that
it
meets
the
needs
of
the
present
without
compromising
the
ability
of
future
genera-ons
to
meet
their
own
needs.”
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4. Sustainable
Development?
Inclusive
Human
Well-­‐being,
(ie.
well-­‐being
across
and
within
genera-ons
that
doesn’t
decline)

5. Sustainable
Development
as
Inclusive
Human
Well-­‐Being?
• Defined
as
the
well-­‐being
of
individual
people
– Aggregated
within
and
across
genera-ons
– Where
that
aggregate
does
not
decline
with
-me
• Cons9tuents
in
specific
contexts
as
mix
of
– General
capability,
freedom
to
shape
own
life
(Sen)
– Specific
aVributes
specified
by
stakeholders
in
par-cular
contexts….

6. Cons&tuents
of
Human
Well-­‐being
(these
examples
from
OECD,
with
rela-ve
weights
determined
individually
by
each
country)
Q1:
What
are
the
most
important
cons&tuents
of
Human
Well-­‐Being
explicitly
considered
in
the
sustainable
development
plans
of
your
university?

7. Innova-on
to
enhance
Inclusive
Human
Well-­‐being?
• Should
target
well-­‐being’s
ul-mate
determinants
– What
we
seek
to
pass,
“uncompromised”
to
future
• These
are
stocks
of
assets
from
which
each
genera-on
shapes
its
own
well-­‐being
– Not
just
flows
of
goods
or
services
from
the
assets
– Examples?
Factories,
farmland,
[GHG],
biodiversity
• For
sustainable
development…
– The
social
value
of
the
stock
of
assets
passed
on
to
successive
genera-ons
should
not
decline
• Which
stocks
of
assets?

8. Core
stocks
of
assets
for
sustainability:
Manufactured,
natural,
human,
social,
knowledge
• Manufactured
capital
– Housing
stock,
electrical
genera-ng
capacity,
transport
net…
• Natural
capital
– Biodiversity,
soil
quan-ty
&
quality,
land
cover
– Capacity
to
fix
energy
from
sun,
shield
UV,
regulate
climate
• Human
capital
– Popula-on
size
and
distribu-on;
its
health
and
educa-on
• Social
capital
– Values,
norms,
laws,
ins-tu-ons…
and
trust
in
them
• Knowledge
capital
– “Social”
knowledge
in
books,
patents,
culture;
– Capacity
to
innovate

9. Core
stocks
of
assets
for
sustainability
On
Your
Campus
• Manufactured
capital
• Natural
capital
• Human
capital
• Social
capital
• Knowledge
capital
• Q2:
On
your
campus…
– What
are
the
specific
capital
assets
most
relevant
to
enhancing
inclusive
well-­‐being
of
‘your’
community?
– How
well
do
you
monitor
and
report
on
the
size
and
quality
of
those
asset
stocks?
– On
which
stocks
of
capital
assets
do
you,
and
don’t
you,
focus
innova&on
for
sustainability?
Why?

10. Produc-ve
Base
Human
Well-­‐Being
Consump-on
Processes
(mediated
by
culture,
power)
Produc-on
Processes
(environmental,
economic,
social)
Goods
&
Services
Cons&tuents
of
Well-­‐being
(W)
Material
needs
Health
Educa9on
Opportunity
Community
Security
Determinants
of
Well-­‐being
Natural
capital
(Cn)
Human
capital
(Ch)
Manufactured
capital
(Cm)
Social
capital/Ins9tu9ons
(Cs)
Knowledge
capital
(Ck)
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Dynamics
(f)
Flows
connec9ng
cons9tuents
of
inclusive
well-­‐being
with
their
determinants
W
=
f
(Cn,
Ch,
Cm,
Cs,
Ck
|chance)
Conceptual
framework
:
Innova&on
for
Sustainable
Development

11. Panel
Discussion
on
Innova-on:
Pushing
Boundaries
to
Generate
New
Ideas
• Objec-ve
– To
iden-fy
models
for
driving
innova-on
that
will
support
and
promote
sustainable
development
on
our
campuses
and
globally
• Key
ques-ons
– Innova-on
for
what?
(Inclusive
well-­‐being
and
asset
stocks)
– What
are
the
sustainability
areas
you
think
campuses
have
the
furthest
to
go
on?
What
should
be
the
priori-es?
– How
are
you
adap-ng
your
sustainability
program
to
address
the
full
range
of
sustainability
challenges?
– What
role
does
innova-on
play
in
your
program?
– What
are
good
models
for
driving
innova-on
for
sustainability?
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12. Innova&on
for
What?
Three
points
for
discussion…
1. To
promote
sustainable
development
(of
course)
– Broadly
conceived
as
inclusive
human
well-­‐being…
– Determined
by
stocks
of
capital
assets
we
hand
on.
2. To
tackle
specific
innova-on
challenges
that…
– Are
significant
barriers
to
sustainable
development
– Private,
government
agents
are
unlikely
to
undertake
3. To
inculcate
habits
of
innova-on
for
sustainability
– In
our
schools,
faculty,
staff,
partners
and
students