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Recent Comments- Comment on Social entrepreneurship and the problem with ‘scale’ by Nachiket MorThis is an interesting debate. As a former grant-maker and investor a current (aspiring!) recipient and investee I can see that there is a potential for tension between these two points of view. My own personal concern as a recipient / investee has been that the investor / donor world-view is typically an extremely reductionist one and the pressure to scale, […]Nachiket Mor
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Tag Archives: social innovation
Transforming the Social Enterprise and Social Innovation Landscape
David Wilcox, the founder of ReachScale (an organization that aligns the social responsibility goals of corporations with high potential social entrepreneurs), writes about three underlying trends that, according to him, will transform the social innovation and social enterprise landscape. For … Continue reading
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Tagged business, corporations, david wilcox, ReachScale, social enterprise, social innovation
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On Technology and Social Innovation
Oftentimes, when we’re talking about innovation, what it is and how it can be learnt or taught (which happens often over the lunch table here in our office), we end up talking about the different kinds of innovation – technological, … Continue reading
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Tagged internet, mobile phones, social innovation, technology
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Ten Innovations You Might Not Have Heard About
via @MahindraRise Mahindra’s Rise team has put together a list of ten new innovations from the emerging world that have the potential to create social change in areas like healthcare, water, farming and more. These include projects such as including … Continue reading
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Tagged emerging economy, innovation, rural, social innovation, VESAG
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Social Innovation by Design
via @Guardian We often talk about the need to integrate design principles, design thinking, and of course, designers, when we talk about social innovation. This may not be essential nor always necessary, but there is a definite role for the … Continue reading
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Tagged breast cancer, condom wrapper, design, one world futbol, social innovation
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Is this Social Innovation?
In the debate on cash transfers versus subsidies, the jury still seems to be out for the most part, and the debate rages on despite the central government’s decision to begin targeted cash transfers in January next year. While some … Continue reading
For profit or not-for profit? That is the question.
We have been talking recently about social entrepreneurship and scaling up innovation for rural and remote communities who often form the bottom of the pyramid market. So I caught up with Rustam Sengupta, of Boond, who I met at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Boond, entrepreneurship, NGO, non-profit, profit, rural markets, rustam sengupta, social innovation
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Citizens as designers, not deciders
I just read a brilliant piece on the SSIR blog, which talks about the current design of political systems, and what they allow and disallow in terms of citizen participation. The author, Brodie Boland, talks about how it is hard … Continue reading
Social entrepreneurship and the problem with ‘scale’
Ever since the Mahindra Rise meetup last Saturday, I’ve been thinking a lot about the question of scale, especially because of what Impact Circle project manager, Mr. Digbijoy Shukla, had to say during the panel. It turns out that a … Continue reading
A discussion with Mahindra to help spark the rise
This Saturday a bunch of us from CKS, including Aditya Sood, Ekta Ohri, Namrata Mehta and myself, will be attending a discussion on better facilitating rural entrepreneurship in India, organized by Mahindra’s Rise team. This discussion is the first of … Continue reading
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Tagged entrepreneurship, India, Mahindra, Rise Campaign, social innovation, Spark the Rise
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Embedding social innovation in business school curriculum
Guy Pfeffermann and Jonathan Doh, respectively the chief executive of the Global Business School Network and the director at the Center for Global Leadership at the Villanova School of Business, recently wrote a column for the Financial Times espousing the … Continue reading
