9: Sciencepreneurship

The focus on the quality of growth connotes scientific entrepreneurship. It proposes healthy growth. Peter Drucker (1909–2005), the Austrian-American educator who significantly contributed to laying a solid philosophical and practical foundation on which the modern edifice of entrepreneurship is built, distinguished healthy growth from putting on fat and cancer. Healthy growth bears the colour of nature; it is green, marked by the reduction of carbon emissions pumped into the air instead of keeping carbon in the soil to increase the soil’s capacity to retain moisture, prevent erosion and enrich the ecosystem’s biodiversity. It is a realistic target, as shown by the steady decline in CO₂ emissions in parallel with GDP growth in dozens of countries. In-depth investigations should be conducted to comprehend this decoupling, considering that total carbon emissions are equal to the multiplication of carbon emissions per dollar of gross domestic product, GDP per capita and the number of people in the world.