Business – Academia Co-innovation
Our 'Leonardo Labs' convene ecosystem stakeholders to co-design, test and scale solutions addressing the grand challenges facing humanity.
Whilst they are not laboratories in the physical sense, they are platforms to develop ideas in collaboration with diverse networks of academic, business, policy and social stakeholders. Our labs take a variety of forms and working models, but all involve collaborations and opportunity for co-innovation. They are both informed by, and contribute to the papers and publications that are the foundation of our scientific discovery.
Our labs operate on multiple levels of intervention – from 'Self' to 'Systemic'.
Leadership Lab
Country Lab
Sector eco-system labs
No individual business will be able to drive transformational change on its own. The interconnectedness and interdependencies of systems and actors should be leveraged to enhance the sustainability of the whole system, not just its constituent parts.
Together with academic experts and key systems players, Leonardo works with businesses to design and experiment with transformational systems change.
We began with finance, chemicals, and fashion because they are systemically influential, deeply interconnected with global supply chains, and representative of both upstream (finance, chemicals) and downstream (fashion) leverage points—offering diverse yet complementary entry points for driving systemic sustainability transitions, with plans to expand into additional sectors over time.
Impact Finance Lab
Chemicals Decarbonisation Lab
