Leverage Points for Low Carbon Entrepreneurship in Wuxi

Entrepreneurial activities can either fuel or slow down climate change. The effect to a great extend depends on the underlying business model. However, all business models have to prove viable in their politico-economic context: the entrepreneurial landscape.
This paper describes how such an entrepreneurial landscape can be shaped, in order to stipulate low carbon business activities. It does so for the concrete case of Wuxi, China. The objective has been to come up with recommenda- tions for a tailored best practice selection—examples that could be adapted to and replicated in Wuxi to let entrepreneurs become enablers of a future low carbon economy.