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Dr Sharon Zivkovic

Dr Dr Sharon Zivkovic

CEO / Founder Community Capacity Builders & CIO / Cofounder Wicked Lab
Community Capacity Builders & Wicked LabAustralia
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Research focus

- Using complex adaptive systems theory to strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems. - Measuring changes in transition characteristics to enable governments to take a complexity approach when addressing wicked problems. - Supporting the scholar-practitioner roles of scholar-systems social entrepreneur and scholar-systems steward to address the rigour-relevance divide of entrepreneurship research. - Integrating nature-based solutions into the Australian social enterprise sector. - Developing a toolkit to assist street level workers and elected officials to play unplanned exploration and planned exploitation roles in communities. - Using Mariana Mazzucato’s mission-oriented policy framework as an overarching framework to combine three Australian systems social entrepreneurship approaches.

SDG targets

4.4

Increase the number of people with relevent skills for financial success

4.7

Education for sustainable development and global citizenship

11.3

Inclusive and sustainable urbanization

11.6

Reduce the environmental impact of cities

11.7

Provide access to safe and inclusive green and public spaces

17.14

Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development

17.16

Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development

17.17

Encourage effective partnerships

Projects

Using Tool for Systemic Change to map, measure and track the transition of a community food system

Dr Sharon Zivkovic — The Global Academy