Toolkit of All Toolkits for Social Innovation

Development practitioners are all too familiar with information overload on how they can do their jobs better. My aim with this blog is to curate some of that information so it’s easier to use. The DIY Toolkit (Development, Impact, and You), created by Nesta in cooperation with the Rockefeller Foundation, is a fairly new web-based resource with…

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A 7 step guide to early stage impact investing

A few days ago I published about the expansion of Impact Investing and the discussions held at the last IE Impact Investing Forum that took place in Madrid. I also included some key resources about Impact Investing Today, I want to share with you a e-guide that aims to help those with an interest in investing in…

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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 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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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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