Addressing SDG 4 in Digital Sustainable Entrepreneurship: The What, How, and Why Ratna Lindawati Lubis (a*), Khusnul Heikal Irsyad (b)
a) Faculty of Economics and Business, Telkom University
Jl. Jl. Telekomunikasi No. 1, Terusan Buahbatu - Bojongsoang, Bandung, 40257, Indonesia
*ratnalnugroho[at]telkomuniversity.ac.id
b) Faculty of Economics and Business, Telkom University
Jl. Jl. Telekomunikasi No. 1, Terusan Buahbatu - Bojongsoang, Bandung, 40257, Indonesia
Abstract
In the last decades, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become an essential topic of discussion for scholars and practitioners concerned with environmental issues. Since the Brundtland Report, sustainable development has steadily gained popularity to become one of the most critical environmental discourses today. Together with innovation, businesses are believed to be partly responsible for upsetting the balance of economically driven, socially driven, and ecologically driven. Critically, Sustainable Entrepreneurship (SE) or green entrepreneurship or ecopreneurship is increasingly cited as a critical sector that can bring about sustainable transformation in production and distribution. Due to its growing recognition as a driver of sustainable development, SE or ecopreneurship is subject to research across many scientific disciplines. Thus, this paper aims to systematically analyze the case studies and outline how sustainable development influences ecopreneurial activities and vice versa. The result reported in this paper aims to describe the evaluation of what, how, and why the ecopreneurs play their role in addressing SDG 4 ^Quality Education^ gained from their green business. However, the findings on how ecopreneurship activities contribute to the achievement of SDG 4 are still limited and should be addressed by further research.
