The consumer products company Unilever has announced more programmes as it moves towards being a more sustainable business. It has published details of a range of research projects in the areas of waste, water and health. This forms part of the ‘Open Innovation’ initiative, in which potential collaborators are invited to work with the firm’s research & development team to develop innovations.
The company has ambitions to double the size of its business while reducing its environmental impact. This is in line with the Radical Shift philosophy that sustainability can make good business sense in purely commercial terms (see …