SYLLABUS

1. Objectifs du cours

- Define what a sustainable business is ?
- Explore ways through which businesses can become sustainable
- Understand what an entrepreneur can do at his level, and what changes in society are needed to go further
- Play the role of en entrepreneur and understand his/her constraints

2. Description du cours

The course is a combination of:
- 2 conferences
- A role game
- A final debrief

3. Plan du cours

• Part 1: Understanding the world we live in: defining sustainabiity and sustainable businesses
• Welcome to the Anthropocene
• A physicial analysis of sustainability: from the Meadows report to Planetay Boundaries and Doughnut economics
• Downscaling issues
• Coming back to the question: what is a sustainable business
• Part 2: Looking for a way forward: the circular economy and territorial cooperation as solutions
• The circular economy: what it is and some businesses are succesful and others not
• Territorial ccoperation as a solution
• New interdependancies: strenth or vulnerability
• Part 3: Role game. You are the entrepreneur. Can you combine sustainability objectives with what customers can accept
• Designing the product
• Deciding on company activities
• Assessing your impact
• Setting a price
• Part 4: Debrief on the role game and on the course

4. Compétences visées

• After the course, the students are expected to:
• have undertood what sustainability is, and more specifically absolute evaluation approaches to sustainability
• have acquired critical thinking abilities to evaluate the sustainability of existing businesses, products and services
• undestanding how to make sustainable design choices for company products, servives and operations

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5. Modalités pédagogiques

Mode d'enseignement : Présentiel

Langue(s) utilisée(s) : English

Méthodes pédagogiques : Cours magistral, Débat / Discussion, Jeu de formation / Serious Game

6. Modalités d'évaluation

Examen écrit sur table

7. Bibliographie

• Briand-Decré, G., (2025), Entrepreneuriat soutenable et pérenne, Prêt.e à écrire votre histoire à impact ?, Pearson (not translated in English).
• Meadows, D. H., Meadows, D. L., Randers, J., & Behrens, W. W. (1972). The limits to. Growth, 102, 27.
• Raworth, K. (2017). Doughnut economics: Seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist (Vol. 320). White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing.
• Rockström, J., Donges, J. F., Fetzer, I., Martin, M. A., Wang-Erlandsson, L., & Richardson, K. (2024). Planetary Boundaries guide humanity's future on Earth. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 5(11), 773-788.