On 14 September, the Post-Growth Business project participated in the Sustainability Beyond Growth Seminar at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) Tokyo Satellite. The seminar brought together researchers and practitioners to explore a shared question: how can societies, organisations and individuals live well when resources are constrained and continuous economic growth can no longer be taken for granted?

Professor Oksana Mont has been awarded a six-month fellowship from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) to conduct research at Tokyo College, University of Tokyo. The project, titled Thriving without growth: Japanese pathways for sustainable business, examines how companies and institutions operate in a context of prolonged low or no economic growth.

As part of the Post-Growth Business seminar series, we welcomed Mario Pansera in December 2025. During his talk, Mario challenged one of the most persistent assumptions in sustainability debates: that innovation, if only properly accelerated, will solve our ecological and social crises.

From September to November 2025, the PGB research team had the pleasure of welcoming Lotte Levelt, a PhD candidate from Nyenrode Business University, as a visiting researcher at the IIIEE.

This project explores the role of business in a post-growth economy. It proposes a new research field on post-growth business models to advance the …