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What Is Corporate Social Innovation? Understanding the New Driver of Change

IdeaScale

The need for a socially appropriate goals and actions of a corporation has given rise to corporate social innovation where companies form partnerships with NGOs. What Is Social Innovation? Merely doing something that is deemed to be good is not social innovation. How to Drive Social Innovation?

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Extend your market making more profit with Social Innovations

Innovation 360

Joseph Schumpeter , the guru of innovation, addressed the process of innovation with his theory of creative destruction and his definition of entrepreneurs as people who combined existing elements in new ways to create a new product or service. There is also a new book published on the subject, Social Innovation, Inc.

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How best to use innovation to fight corruption: 2 Case Studies

Idea to Value

Education and social involvement: Many initiatives aim to reduce the appeal of engaging in corrupt activities through education, social outreach and community building. The program costs the Indonesian government more than $1.5 That means over half of it was being lost along the way.

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Innovative Leadership in Circular Economy Initiatives: Paving the Way for Sustainability

Tullio Siragusa

Engaging with Stakeholders and the Community Build Partnerships: Collaborate with governments, NGOs, and other organizations to support circular initiatives. Seek Funding and Incentives: Explore grants, subsidies, and other financial incentives offered by governments and international bodies to support sustainability initiatives.

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Emerging Trends in Design Thinking Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

The Singapore government used Design Thinking to secure work passes in simpler and more humane way. Design Thinking can be used by any complex systems such as government, business, or social organizations to break down problems and explore questions such as how it can respond to the growth of technology and globalization.

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Serious About Your Social Mission? Innovate It.

Leapfrogging

A new book by Silicon Valley tech veteran and innovation advocate Ann Mei Chang, Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good explores the unique challenges that can deter social innovation. This simple stake in the ground is where social innovation begins. Principle 2: Start Small.

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Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources

Board of Innovation

Collective intelligence & prediction platforms Lumenogic – collective intelligence markets Ushahidi – crowdsourcing crisis information Kaggle – data mining and forecasting Google Image Labeler – crowdsourced image labeling 04.