School of Sustainability Graduate Culminating Experience Sharing Permissions Agreement Form
LIBRARY REPOSITORY SYSTEM
The ASU Digital Repository (ASU-DR) provides a place to collect, preserve, and discover the creative and
scholarly output from ASU faculty, research partners, staff and students. The School of Sustainability (SOS) has
its own collection in the ASU-DR for graduate students’ culminating experience papers. Adding your paper to the
ASU-DR will benefit present and future researchers, and help future students by providing models of final
projects. You are required to submit your project/ capstone deliverables or scientific paper to the collection.
Please note that the ASU-DR is an Open repository, which means that anyone will be able to view and download
your project deliverables. By adding your deliverables to the ASU-DR, you retain copyright to your outputs, but
grant Arizona State University a non-exclusive license to disseminate your work through the Digital Repository
and to make copies for preservation purposes per the Terms of Deposit:
https://repository.asu.edu/about/policies/terms-of-deposit
If you have any concerns regarding making your work available in this manner please contact
SOSGradAdvising@asu.edu.
To complete your part of the submission process please fill out electronically the fields below as they relate to
your culminating experience. Also, other sections of this form may require completion from others (e.g., project
partners) or in consultation with others (e.g., a discussion with your project or faculty advisor). Submit the
completed form and an electronic copy of your executive summary and project deliverables (such as project
report, presentations, education material, and/ or other media) to SOSGradAdvising@asu.edu.
Title:

A Business Accelerator Model for Advancing Sustainability Transformations

Abstract: Multi-scalar, integrated and transformational solutions are necessary to address the complex problems
of climate change and sustainable development. Cities are using urban living labs to develop and test
such solutions; however, the pace of transformation does not yet match the urgency of the problems at
hand. In business, accelerators are used to advance new and potentially transformational enterprises,
giving fresh ideas an advantage over more established competition, thereby accelerating the pace of
change. This article examines the accelerator model and considers its adaptation to urban living labs.
From the literature, a multi-scalar business accelerator model is proposed that addresses both
individual and system interventions to advance sustainability transformations. Also proposed is a
formative-evaluation framework to guide effective implementation of the accelerator model. This article
concludes with recommendations for scholars and practitioners working on urban living labs to utilize
business accelerators to advance sustainability transformations.

Author(s): Ashley Mack
Mentor(s): Lauren Withycombe Keeler, Arnim Wiek, Henrik von Wehrden
Subject Tags/Keywords (enter at least 3 unique tags):

business accelerator, sustainability accelerator, sustainability transformation, urban transformation, urban lab

Number of Files Submitted: 1
Number of Pages (per item submitted): 20
Would you like to apply a Creative Commons license to your project
(see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/)?
If so, please place a check next to which one:
☐ CC-BY ☐ CC-BY-SA ☐ CC-BY-ND ☐ CC-BY-NC ☐ CC-BY-NC-SA
Submission Date: April 24, 2019

☐ CC-BY-NC-ND

EMBARGO
Some papers need an embargo, which means they will have a delayed publication date in the library collection.
This is common if the student is trying to publish their work. Please consult your project or faculty advisor as to
whether or not your submissions need an embargo, and if so, for how long.
☐ No embargo needed

☐ 2-year embargo requested

☐ 4-year embargo requested

Embargo Comments (optional):

PROPRIETARY INFORMATION
Some materials contain proprietary information that cannot be shared. Contact your project partner to discuss if
your executive summary and project report/deliverables (paper or other media) have proprietary information. You
may wish to consult with your project or faculty advisor also. The project partner will need to fill out the section
below to confirm approval of your materials being shared and to what extent. Project work, with proprietary or
sensitive material redactions of more than 25% of the content, may be of limited value and should therefore be
withheld from public view.
PROJECT PARTNER SECTION (TO BE COMPLETED BY THE PROJECT PARTNER)
With signing this form, the project partner, will give permission to make the student work available through the
ASU Digital Repository System and through Sustainability Connect, which links back to the ASU-DR entry.
Making the project deliverables available for public view does not allow copying this work, as building on the
existing body of work requires the regular practice of crediting and referencing previous work.
Printed Name: __________________________________________________________
Signature: _________________________________________________________ Date: ____________
Title: ________________________________________________________________________________
Organization: _________________________________________________________________________
Phone Number: ________________________________ Email: __________________________________
☐ Full permission: others can access the work through the ASU Digital Repository and view the work.
☐ Limited Permission (provide details below): others can access the work through the ASU Digital Repository
and view the work under the following conditions:

☐ I do not give permission: others cannot access the work through the ASU Digital Repository and view the
work.

PHOTOS AND COMPANY IMAGES:
☐ I do give permission to publish the pictures, selected by the student, with me/our products and premises on it.
☐ I do not give permission to publish the pictures, selected by the student, with me/our products and premises
on it.
STUDENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SECTION
The decisions made in the above sections will determine how content is shared in Sustainability Connect,
mirroring what is approved for the ASU Digital Repository collection. The executive summary will be published
on Sustainability Connect with a link to the location in the ASU Digital Repository collection where the project
report (paper) or other media is housed. If an embargo is in place, only the abstract will appear until the end of the
embargo period. By signing below, you acknowledge and provide consent.

Ashley Mack
Student’s Printed Name: _______________________________________________________________
Digitally signed by Ashley Mack
Ashley
Mack
Date: 2019.04.24 12:56:35 -07'00'
Student’s Signature: ___________________________________________________________________

April 24, 2019
Date: _________________________________