Social Innovation

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• Today’s Pick: 2009 INDEX:Award Winners

  
  MaRS Blog - Innovation and Commercialization in Canada — Authority: 425
  Filed under: Social Innovation , Todays Picks December 2nd, 2009 by Helen @ MaRS INDEX:Award for social innovators The INDEX:Award claims to be the world’s “biggest design award” program with a total annual prize value of 500,000 euros.  Sponsored by the Denmark-based INDEX: organization, ...
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• Sparkseed Social Innovation Calls for Undergrads

  
  Campus Entrepreneurship — Authority: 110
  Just received an update from Sparkseed , a social venture fund/accelerator that provides “offers a comprehensive program for collegiate social innovators.” Ten students will be chosen to participate  Sparkseed Innovators receive: Six months of comprehensive support, including: Mentoring from entrepreneurs ...
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• Tech for change: A round-up of game-changers

  
  MaRS Blog - Innovation and Commercialization in Canada — Authority: 425
  Filed under: Emerging Science and Technology , Social Innovation December 1st, 2009 by Lisa @ MaRS The Semantic Web: More intuitive than ever The web’s capacity to be instantaneous, replicable and viral is offering up unparalleled results. In fact, never before has offline mobilization ...
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• BoP Product Design & Testing in Urban Spaces

  
  India Development Blog — Authority: 123
  The following is part of an ongoing blog series from the Rural Market Insights team at the Centre for Development Finance, IFMR, located in Chennai, India. This series follows the activities of two researchers as they design, prototype an d conduct initial user-testing of new and existing Base-of-Pyramid (BoP) ...
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• Key concepts in technology marketing

  
  MaRS Blog - Innovation and Commercialization in Canada — Authority: 425
  Filed under: Emerging Science and Technology , Entrepreneurship and Business , Innovation Policy , Social Innovation , Todays Picks November 30th, 2009 by Jon @ MaRS For my first degree, I majored in marketing, so I figured I was well equipped for the challenges that lay ahead when I joined ...
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• Want to Design a Better World? Try the ‘Thankfulness Process’

  
  ZenStorming - Where Science Meets Muse... — Authority: 115
  Could using the "Thankfulness Process" lead to more grass roots, sustainable solutions to the worlds problems?
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• Today’s Pick: Top 10 mistakes entrepreneurs make when writing a business plan

  
  MaRS Blog - Innovation and Commercialization in Canada — Authority: 425
  Filed under: Emerging Science and Technology , Entrepreneurship and Business , Social Innovation , Todays Picks November 29th, 2009 by June @ MaRS Here’s the round-up of the week in the newsfeeds. Below I highlight my favourite articles of the week from each category. Today’s Top Pick - ...
  3 days ago

• Generate And Sustain Creative Ideas To Take Non-Profits To The Next Level

  
  SGEntrepreneurs — Authority: 477
  In this Social Conversation, the Lien Centre for Social Innovation will focus on “Good Ideas – Generating and sustaining creative ideas to take non-profits to the next level”. While social entrepreneurs also have the bottom-line to worry about, this seminar might also be helpful in their social enterprises. ...
  3 days ago

• Entrepreneurs from Muslim World Sought for Washington Summit

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Entrepreneurs from Muslim World Sought for Washington Summit The 2010 summit follows up on President Obama’s pledge in Cairo to find ways to deepen ties between the U.S. and the Muslim world.By Stephen Kaufman Staff Writer Washington — Approximately 150 entrepreneurs from Muslim-majority countries and Muslim ...
  3 days ago

• Innovating by Making the World a Better Place

  
  Better World Movement — Authority: 145
  An interview with Maggie Brenneke, Director, Skoll Social Enterprise Program. When businesses consider their social and environmental bottom lines, they identify new opportunities to innovate. Some of those opportunities can be surprisingly counterintuitive.Innovating by Making the World a Better Place is a post from: ...
  5 days ago

• UX Australia 2010

  
  Nathanael Boehm — Authority: 416
  In the last week the UX Events team announced next year’s UX Australia conference, to be held 25-27 August 2010 at Langham Hotel in Melbourne. Conference registration will open in May so pencil that date in your calendar for the only Australian conference dedicated to the user experience profession. Perhaps you ...
  6 days ago

• Over $18,500 donated to LIVE UNITED Social Innovation Prize Finalists

  
  LIVE UNITED Y'All! — Authority: 455
  By Howard Mason The LIVE UNITED Social Innovation prize, presented by Ernst & Young, was designed for change makers in Kentuckiana who are prepared to put their ideas into action. The winners were picked by the public making credit card contributions to the eight finalists. Contributions were accepted through ...
  1 week ago

• Today’s Pick: Apps for Innovation

  
  MaRS Blog - Innovation and Commercialization in Canada — Authority: 425
  Filed under: Emerging Science and Technology , Social Innovation November 24th, 2009 by Helen @ MaRS Developers: Applications for innovation The Innovation Movement , a coalition spearheaded by the Consumer Electronics Association to advocate “…policies that stimulate America’s ...
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• Today’s Pick: Business benefits abound with Ontario tax reductions

  
  MaRS Blog - Innovation and Commercialization in Canada — Authority: 425
  Filed under: Canada and the World , Emerging Science and Technology , Entrepreneurship and Business , Innovation Policy , Social Innovation , Todays Picks November 24th, 2009 by June @ MaRS Here’s the round-up of the week in the newsfeeds. Below I highlight my favourite articles of the ...
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• Better The World: A summary

  
  MaRS Blog - Innovation and Commercialization in Canada — Authority: 425
  Filed under: Entrepreneurship and Business , Guest Blogs , Social Innovation November 23rd, 2009 by Steve Croth Thanks to everyone who attended my session last Wednesday. I tried to provide practical advice for entrepreneurs launching or participating in social enterprises. I talked about the ...
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• The Business of Aging: A moonshot mission for Ontario

  
  MaRS Blog - Innovation and Commercialization in Canada — Authority: 425
  Filed under: Emerging Science and Technology , Entrepreneurship and Business , MaRS , Social Innovation November 19th, 2009 by Ilse @ MaRS Aging: Our next big mission Look around you and chances are you’ll notice that Canada’s population, along with the rest of the world, is aging ...
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• Canberra Freelancers and Entrepreneurs Coffee

  
  Nathanael Boehm — Authority: 416
  Inspired by Global Entrepreneurs Week I’ve organised a coffee meet for this coming Monday for freelancers and entrepreneurs in Canberra and surrounding regions. The purpose will initially be to connect and network over coffee but eventually I hope we can add more value to the meetups to help one another through ...
  2 weeks ago

• Scaling social entrepreneurship (or why many molehills make a mountain)

  
  The School for Social Entrepreneurs — Authority: 112
  [This post was written for the UnLtdWorld Shout Out for Social Enterprise series] There are big problems in the UK and in the rest of the world: social and environmental needs and challenges that are not currently being met adequately...
  2 weeks ago

• Today’s Pick: Ottawa’s technology community strengthened through $44 million initiative

  
  MaRS Blog - Innovation and Commercialization in Canada — Authority: 425
  Filed under: Emerging Science and Technology , Entrepreneurship and Business , Social Innovation , Todays Picks November 17th, 2009 by June @ MaRS Here’s the round-up of the week in the newsfeeds. Below I highlight my favourite articles of the week from each category. Today’s Top Pick - ...
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• Can Too Many People be Creative?

  
  ZenStorming - Where Science Meets Muse... — Authority: 115
  How many people need to be creative to have optimum performance in cultures?
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