www.astesj.com 393 Environmental Entrepreneurship as an Innovation Catalyst for Social Change: A Systematic Review as a Basis for Future Research Carol Dineo Diale 1,* , Mukondeleli Grace Kanakana-Katumba 2 , Rendani Wilson Maladzhi 2 1 Department of Psychology, Industrial Psychology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa 2 Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of South Africa, Johannesburg, 0002, South Africa A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Received: 09 November, 2020 Accepted: 13 January, 2021 Online: 22 January, 2021 There are pressures to adopt sustainable behaviour more so in generating profits and benefiting the society to accelerate green efforts through a green framework. The overarching goal of the paper is premised through various works of literature, building the ecosystem the elements highlighted by most researchers in the field of environmental entrepreneurship. The various models reviewed consists of generic incubators and entrepreneurship, and societal and environmental factors. Environmental entrepreneurship is often used interchangeably with concepts such as green entrepreneurship and ecopreneurship which under-researched globally, with non-existent efforts on the applicability and modelling of key environmental entrepreneurship within a specific context utilising the system dynamics approach. In order to assess the environmental entrepreneurship ecosystem, the authors adopted a system dynamic approach to determine key variables that enable the development of the system. A literature review was conducted, and of the 135 articles reviewed, n=92 peer-reviewed articles met the criteria that the researchers set. Some of the results emanating from a systematic review are environmental policy, green skills, financial and non-financial support, societal and behavioural factors, environmental agility, ethics and governance, and access to markets. The theoretical results are simulated using system dynamics modelling. Due to limited research on the above- mentioned topic, a possible impacting variable (Exogenous variables) was broadened to add value to, and have an impact on, the study. Upon reviewing the above-mentioned models, the framework emerged signalling elements to be simulated in the system dynamics model, which were then theoretically contextualised for the South African context. The theoretical virtual system dynamic model forming part of the framework will be tested and validated in the next study. The applicability of the theoretical ecosystem to South African context as well as future recommendations are provided in the study. Keywords: Environmental entrepreneurship System dynamics Innovation 1. Introduction This paper is an extension of "Green Entrepreneurship Model Utilising the System Dynamics Approach: A Review" presented at the IEEM 2019 Conference in Macau [1]. The conference proceeding argued that Green entrepreneurship as a technology is an area that has not been explored fully, let alone its application the system dynamics spectrum. Furthermore, the paper argued that empirical scholarly research in entrepreneurship within Green industries is at infancy stages in South Africa, and little research work has been done. In [2], the author conducted a study focusing on green entrepreneurs in the South African context. While [3-5] concentrated on the international markets. However, a complete ecosystem surrounding environmental entrepreneurship, and system dynamics remains a gap under consideration. The existing research is centred around a single factor of green entrepreneurship [1], [3-5], with less focus on finding possible multiple solutions to minimise climatic challenges. In this paper, the focus is on environmental entrepreneurship, particularly with the aim of contributing to social norms and finding innovative ASTESJ ISSN: 2415-6698 * Corresponding Author: Dineo Diale, c.diale@ru.ac.za Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal Vol. 6, No. 1, 393-400 (2021) www.astesj.com Special issue on Multidisciplinary Innovation in Engineering Science and Technology https://dx.doi.org/10.25046/aj060145