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Business Model

CEC provides a range of business services through our web-based 'Hubs' - local chapters; from simple content and communication to business process and micro site ownership, legal, human resources, marketing and sales, financial, branding campaigns, specialized seminars, group meetings, access to local working groups etc. CEC has developed an Eco Commerce Hub, a web-based user community reaching individuals across industries and continents.

Stakeholder

CEC stakeholders come from diverse backgrounds of business, academic, government, consulting, geographic, nationality, age etc. The hub is an "eco-system", a business community developed around sustainable innovation content where our users including professionals, experts and service-providers can collaborate to market or improve their eco-innovation offerings. Our goal is to generate interest and activity which creates new participation from many users across industries and continents.

Target Groups and Reach

CEC serves and reaches innovators, investors and leaders from business, academia, government, NGO, and non-profit sectors seeking to explore or invest in the next generation of innovation - one which can help save money, materials and energy; grow profits; compete in the global marketplace; and create shared value with a positive impact on the planet. We invite these users to join our Eco Commerce Hub - a virtual place where they can spend time actively networking and collaborating to learn and catch the next "big thing", conduct business, actively network, find information and contacts, discuss and share the topics across industries and continents.

Why Join?

Individuals and organizations join CEC projects and initiatives to explore sustainable innovation approaches for transforming business practices, creating new profits and opportunities, and improving their competitive advantage in the global marketplace. Our stakeholders connect and explore new partnerships with leaders from business, academia, government, NGO, foundation and non profit sectors to deliver sustainable solutions to shared issues and challenges.

Who Joins?

Business professionals who deal with sustainability issues and challenges every day for example; CSR, operations, supply chain, marketing and other areas; Investors exploring opportunities; Academics conducting relevant research and seeking to bring their innovations to market; Staff of non-profits, government agencies and consulting firms helping innovators and businesses to accelerate eco-innovation and transfer of new technology.

Contributors

Companies and individuals that already have eco-innovations or sustainability initiatives and projects underway and want to hare their success stories and white papers shared with other users to accelerate green progress and profits. Content contributors include but are not limited to such companies as consulting firms providing sustainable innovation related products and services; non-profits developing sustainable innovation strategies to address their specific challenges; Government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels seeking to build PPPs (Public Private Partnerships); Universities developing their sustainable innovations and marketing their new innovations and services to businesses and other organizations; Media companies producing science based media releases and video news releases; and global organizations such as H2OAlliance (www.H2OAlliance.org) contributing to specific challenges. 

Competitive Intelligence and Positioning

The Eco Commerce Hub is designed to market eco innovations and share actionable knowledge with users to accelerate the technology transfer and by providing internal and external communications, research, or marketing support to all users. We are positioned to accelerate the adoption of eco-innovations, behavior and products in business across industries and continents. Individuals and organizations benefit from each others' information and investment in eco-innovations via marketing their innovation(s) to potential investors, partners and customers; or sharing their sustainable innovations in an open 

source mode where innovations can be licensed for shared use by their creator, used and improved by others, and re-contributed to a public archive.

Non-Profits

Nonprofits and foundations can distribute free licenses and other tools through Eco Commerce Hub so that our users can share, remix, and use these free eco-innovations commercially. 

Donations

We do NOT accept donations; instead we encourage you to make a donation to our non-profit stakeholders and partner projects. To learn more how you can help catalyze change, please visit: www.CatalyticPhilanthropist.com

Collaborative Education

CEC engages experts and educators, individuals and organizations, from around the world to teach and engage people and employees to new business models and processes, to conserve, recycle, improve efficiency and reduce waste, and deliver benefits for employees, companies and communities. We support public education initiatives such as STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math).

Benefits and Incentives

Being recognized as a leader or expert in eco-innovation; Creating and providing tangible, measurable and competitive solutions and advantages; sharing and contributing in order to receive or use sustainable innovations; networking in exchange for other value; leveraging existing partnerships and networks that they have already created, used and benefited from eco-innovation.

Philanthropy 

We expand access to capital by targeting philanthropic capital. We work with catalytic philanthropists, corporate intrapreneurs, and social entrepreneurs, and leaders in business, finance, academia, non-governmental organizations, government, non-profits, and media. Our focus is to help stimulate investment in sustainable innovation and projects that link technology, philanthropy, and investment activity, and high-impact donations (www.CatalyticPhilantropist.com)

Timing

Timing is now as the need for sustainable innovations and effective solutions to contribute to sustainability challenges has never been greater.

Opportunity

Many companies and organizations recognize they can't do it alone and are more receptive to partnering with others to accomplish specific outcomes. There are many "communities of practice" across all sectors and geographies seeking innovative, proven, cost-effective solutions to the issues and challenges their organizations face. We are positioned to capitalize on all of these trends. Responses to CEC has exceeded our expectations. This is very exciting and will further boost our progress. We will reach out to more individuals and organizations daily to discuss ongoing initiatives, opportunities, and possibilities for partnership. Our key contacts are based in North America, Europe, China, Russia, South America, Middle East and Africa.To allow individuals and organizations to start engagement in CEC and our web based sustainable innovation community, we will launch the first release of the Eco Commerce Hub  in 2011.

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