Sustainability

At Edinburgh Innovations, our Enterprise Services team helps University staff and students take their ideas from concept to real-world impact, and ensures that the commercial potential of new ideas, research and inventions can be fully realised.

Food and drink manufacturing waste and by-products have the potential to power a circularised bioeconomy, whilst also relieving tensions in the food-versus-fuel debate and supporting efforts to achieve targets in climate change, sustainability and food security, argues Professor Louise Horsfall.

There has never been a stronger case for taking meaningful action to address climate change than the one delivered by the IPCC in August, we are running out of time, on this we all appear to agree. Therefore, it is time to trust the consumer with the information they need to take individual but collective action.

Edinburgh Innovations is developing a tool to help new startups to apply circular-economy thinking to their business models as part of a multi-partner project that has won funding of €1.2 million from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).