Rencontres de St-Gall | 01–02 September 2026, St.Gallen
Sustainable entrepreneurship 2.0: How can we re-invigorate the debate (and practice) about the social and environmental responsibility of entrepreneurial ventures? Or do we need to go back to “the business of business is business”?
Session C
«Financing and growing sustainable businesses»
Chairs: Berger, Elisabeth / Lekkas, Henrik
Bold names indicate the Rencontres’ participants
Ademi, Petrit
“Who Pays for Patience? Financing the Long-Term Promise of Sustainable Ventures”
“Who Pays for Patience? Financing the Long-Term Promise of Sustainable Ventures”
Bergmann, Heiko / Mueller, Henry Willem
The Hybrid Signal Dilemma: Configurational Pathways to Resource Mobilization in Sustainable Entrepreneurship
The Hybrid Signal Dilemma: Configurational Pathways to Resource Mobilization in Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Conti, Annamaria / Marinoni, Astrid / Roche, Maria P.
Knowledge Without Borders? Brexit, the Geography of Technical Q&A and Innovation
Knowledge Without Borders? Brexit, the Geography of Technical Q&A and Innovation
Faems, Dries
Scaling as a Missing Concept in the Sustainable Entrepreneurship Debate
Scaling as a Missing Concept in the Sustainable Entrepreneurship Debate
Huyghe, Annelore
Temporal (Mis)Alignment and the Viability of Technology-Based Oppositional Categories: The Contested Case of Cultured Meat
Temporal (Mis)Alignment and the Viability of Technology-Based Oppositional Categories: The Contested Case of Cultured Meat
Kleinert, Simon
Sustainable entrepreneurship and the limits of market relevance
Sustainable entrepreneurship and the limits of market relevance
Rückwald, Niklas
Sustainability by Purchase Order: Can the venture client model scale sustainable entrepreneurship, or does it just let firms buy their way out of it?
Sustainability by Purchase Order: Can the venture client model scale sustainable entrepreneurship, or does it just let firms buy their way out of it?
2026 | University of St.Gallen – Swiss Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship | KMU-HSG