This paper was presented at The ISPIM Innovation Conference – Innovating Our Common Future, Berlin, Germany on 20–23 June 2021. Event Proceedings: LUT Scientific and Expertise Publications: ISBN 978-952-335-467-8 1 Introducing Transformational Sustainability Entrepreneurship to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Antonieta Alcorta de Bronstein* University of Vechta, Driverstr. 22, 49377 Vechta, Germany E-mail: antonieta.alcorta-de-bronstein@uni-vechta.de Jana-Michaela Timm University of Hamburg, School of Economics and Social Sciences, Rentzelstraße 7, 20146 Hamburg, Germany E-Mail: jana.timm@uni-hamburg.de Jantje Halberstadt University of Vechta, Driverstr. 22, 49377 Vechta, Germany E-mail: jantje.halberstadt@uni-vechta.de * Corresponding author Abstract: The United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development drawn up in 2015 in order to tackle the grand challenges of our time specifies 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs). With a multi-stakeholder approach in which national governments are no longer the only ones responsible, we focus our work on one group of stakeholders: enterprises. There is a lack of clarity about what kind of businesses would help to achieve the SDGs given the many divergent concepts. Based on a study of the comprehensive body of literature, we make a conceptual proposition of entrepreneurship for the SDGs. The main outcome of our study is that entrepreneurship that is directed towards contributing to the SDGs needs to be heading towards a systemic change and simultaneously be oriented towards values of sustainability. Therefore, we introduce the concept of Transformational Sustainability Entrepreneurship as a clear concept for businesses working to achieve the SDGs. Keywords: Transformational Sustainability Entrepreneurship; grand societal challenges; sustainable development goal; SDG; entrepreneurship; sustainability; transformation 1 Introduction The United Nations (UN) declared entrepreneurship as key to achieve the 17 sustainable development goals (SGDs). The 193 member states of the UN agreed upon them in 2015, and are intended to help tackling the grand societal challenges of our time (UN 2015). The SDGs are based on a multi-stakeholder approach, meaning that national governments are no longer the only ones responsible to achieve these goals. Only when other stakeholders