One of the ways of doing this, says Allison Rohe, Deputy Director of Venture Labs, IE’s start-up incubator, is “to develop a working knowledge of the technologies that are applied to address these challenges, while also contemplating their implications.” As part of the IE Challenge, student teams are termed as Innovation Consultants and help real-world enterprises amplify or scale up the impact of sustainability-driven missions. “The aim,” says Rohe, “is to help students develop the skills, mindset, and tools required to become leaders of positive change.” In the IE Challenge, students work in teams and, in each class/group, they are posed with the same challenge by the same client. This year had as many as 1000 students in 30 different classes/groups and 150 teams enroll in the programme.”