Posts by Guadalupe de la Mata
Today at 7 pm presentation of the study a new study on Social Innovation: Pathways to Systemic Change
I want to share with you this information about an interesting event organised by ESADE´s Institute of Social Innovation, that takes place today at 7 pm in Madrid. Presentation Social innovation, a movement based on the analysis and implementation of “new ideas to solve social problems”, has attracted a growing number of followers and stakeholders.…
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List of Open Innovation resources, tools, books and more
Open innovation models have become an integral part of the innovation strategies and business models of companies in recent years. Innovation is increasingly based on knowledge assets beyond the boundaries of the company and co-operation has become an important way of tapping into knowledge resources outside in order to generate new ideas and bring them…
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A World Bank initiative to find Solutions for Job Creation… collectively we can have more impact
I want to share with you an initiative launched by the World bank to look for practical solutions to expand job creation. This is an example of how the public sector can apply “collective intelligence” to find new and innovative solutions for an specific purpose. In this sense, the World Bank has established a number…
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A crowdsourced selection of useful tools for startups
A few weeks ago I shared with you a list of resources for startups put together by Steve Blank in the following post. Today, I want to share a crowdsourced selection pull together by Tom Hulme, design director at Ideo in London, a fine conference speaker, and an entrepreneur. He’s gathered a bunch of useful links in an editable…
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Bill Drayton´s Five trends for Social Entrepreneurship
At a recent event in NYC, journalist and author David Bornstein interviewed Ashoka Founder Bill Drayton about the future of social entrepreneurship. In case you missed it, here is the video of the interview Find also below a recap of the event from Eli Malinsky of the Centre for Social Innovation. 1.) Find Comfort in Change The pace of…
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What is crowdsourcing and crowdfunding?
A short animated film by Crowdsourcing.org, narrated by Crowdsourcing.org’s Founder, Carl Esposti, describing the four different ways Crowdsourcing works and the five different categories of things you can do with crowdsourcing. It shows how: to tap the power of the crowd for creative projects (Crowd Creativity), to collect and organize knowledge (Distributed Knowledge), to use…
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WHAT IS INCLUSIVE BUSINESS ?: World Bank´s definition and resources.
Inclusive business is a private sector approach to providing goods, services, and livelihoods on a commercially viable basis, either at scale or scalable, to people at the base of the pyramid by making them part of the value chain of companies’ core business as suppliers, distributors, retailers, or customers. Inclusive businesses expand access to goods,…
Read MoreBusinesses using Crowdsourcing to promote Social Innovation
Last April, Unilever hosted its ‘Sustainable Living Lab,’ a 24-hour, global social innovation online event aiming to generate new ideas across four key areas: – sustainable sourcing, production, distribution and consumer behaviour change. Recently, the world has witnessed a wave of businesses pioneering new ways of putting into practice the concept of ‘a problem shared can be…
Read MoreThe power of vulnerability. TED talk by Brené Brown
This weekend a friend mentioned this TED Talk by Brené Brown. It has deeply stirred me and I want to share it with you. It touches upon the following questions: How do we learn to embrace our vulnerabilities and imperfections so that we can engage in our lives from a place of authenticity and worthiness?…
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