Green Entrepreneurship
Green entrepreneurship can include the propensity to innovate or create a green organization or the creation of new products, services and processes to meet environmental market opportunities. It concerns the alleviation of environmentally relevant market failures through the exploitation of potentially profitable opportunities. In Collaboration with our Riata Faculty Fellow from the School of Agricultural Sciences, the Green Entrepreneurship initiative includes module/course development on Green Entrepreneurship, contributions to an inter-disciplinary course on sustainability, the development of a Green Entrepreneurship Extension Fact Sheet and the hosting of a Green Entrepreneurship workshop/symposium in Spring 2012 .In addition, faculty across campus are encouraged to pursue a green research agenda and some of the green projects include pervious concrete pavers, alternative green roof media, an injection and mixing system for flocculent in stormwater, a system for estimating flocculation parameters, and an automated first flush diverter.