1. Nicoletta Piccolrovazzi

Nicoletta Piccolrovazzi (LinkedIn) is co-founder of consultancy Applied Sustainability after many successful years at Dow Chemicals, including as Global Technology & Sustainability Director. Here she talks about innovation at Dow for sustainability, especially for the Olympics.

This is part of a series of interviews about innovation for sustainability conducted for the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, as a contribution to a module in this Masters.  You can find out more about these interviews, and the module, here.


Here are the times of each of the questions. 

PERSONAL AND ORGANISATIONAL INTRO

0:50 - Q1. What is your role and organisation? 

ORGANISATIONAL SETTING

1:57 - Q2. What role does your department / function have in the organisation? What is expected from you? How does that connect to the organisation’s strategy?

3:48 - Q3. How is ‘sustainability’ framed in your organisation? (For instance: are there specific key words or phrases? Is it only environmental?)

INNOVATION STORY

08:37 - Q4. Can you tell us the story of a good example of your work on innovation for sustainability?

INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

17:41 - Q5. What are the key methods and practices you use for innovation for sustainability?

23:59 - Q6. What are the biggest challenges you face, and how do you overcome them?

26:02 - Q7. If there was one thing policymakers could do which would make your work significantly easier, what would that be?

THE FUTURE

27:35 - Q8. What are your organisation’s priorities on innovation going forward and why?

This is part of a series of interviews about innovation for sustainability conducted for the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, as a contribution to a module in this Masters. You can find out more about these interviews, and the module, here.