Episode 13: Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Episode 14, Apr 26, 12:52 PM
In this episode host, Prof. David Spicer, is joined by Prof. Vadim Grinevich and serial social entrepreneur Steffan Lemke-Elms as they discuss what social and sustainable entrepreneurship actually means. The conversation covers a range of topics including academic entrepreneurship and how you can get started as a entrepreneur and our guests explore the idea of demystifying the phrase "not for profit".
Steffan Lemke-Elms is a serial social entrepreneur, chef and co-director of Glasbren a non-profit social enterprise farm reimaging our local food systems in Wales. His work as a social and sustainable entrepreneur has included auctioning celebrities’ shoes to raise money for children in Africa, work for the Eden project, recycling discarded wellies left behind at Glastonbury through his charity ‘Reboot’ and he established The Warren, the Sustainable Restaurant Association’s ‘Best Local Restaurant’ in Wales in 2019-20.
Vadim Grinevich is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Innovation and the Head of the Research Cluster on Transformative Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses here at the University of Bradford School of Management. Vadim’s key expertise is in the field of academic entrepreneurship and innovation and in digitally enabled sustainable entrepreneurship. His research develops an inclusive approach which helps shed light on the nature and extent of entrepreneurial activities by academics with different intersectional profiles.
Steffan Lemke-Elms is a serial social entrepreneur, chef and co-director of Glasbren a non-profit social enterprise farm reimaging our local food systems in Wales. His work as a social and sustainable entrepreneur has included auctioning celebrities’ shoes to raise money for children in Africa, work for the Eden project, recycling discarded wellies left behind at Glastonbury through his charity ‘Reboot’ and he established The Warren, the Sustainable Restaurant Association’s ‘Best Local Restaurant’ in Wales in 2019-20.
Vadim Grinevich is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Innovation and the Head of the Research Cluster on Transformative Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses here at the University of Bradford School of Management. Vadim’s key expertise is in the field of academic entrepreneurship and innovation and in digitally enabled sustainable entrepreneurship. His research develops an inclusive approach which helps shed light on the nature and extent of entrepreneurial activities by academics with different intersectional profiles.