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By Emilie Hobbs
This year’s EcoHouse design for Brazil. Constructed in a weekend by ecohousers in Cambridge. (c) EcoHouse Initiative
This is the third article in Emilie Hobbs and Clara Marquardt’s blog series on social enterprise and development.
As our impact on the environment fails to slow despite waning public concern [1], the call for ‘green’ action is escalating across all sectors. Amidst declining resources, innovation is arguably one of our most important remaining, and in a (more...)
Dr Alex Nicholls is University Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship within the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
In the second part of the blog series on social enterprise and development, Clara Marquardt speaks with Dr Alex Nicholls, a leading academic in the field of social entrepreneurship. The interview examines some of the implications of social enterprise for the least developed countries (LDCs). The impact social enterprises have (more...)
In the first part of the blog series on social enterprise and development, Clara Marquardt speaks with the organiser of an innovative ‘donor education’ platform and an expert in development project monitoring and evaluation. The interviews explore the implications of social enterprise for the public development discourse and the advancement of social impact measurement – issues which affect any discussion of social enterprise.
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On March 16th, companies and NGOs team up with enterprising students and professionals for a week-long ‘open innovation’ event to find new approaches to development challenges. The Hackathon ends on 23rd March when teams present their new approaches and awards are given to the innovators with the most promising ideas—chosen by a panel of experts, and by the crowd!
This is the second year the Humanitarian Centre, the Univeristy of Cambridge Office of Public Engagement and Cambridge (more...)
Manufacturingchange.org is a Humanitarian Centre member organisation that connects enterprising change makers in developing countries to volunteers that can support them in manufacturing and production-related activities.
Over the next two months, leading up to the Innovation and Development Hackathon in March, we will explore themes within social enterprise via a series articles and interviews with academics, social entrepreneurs and students. Adopting a critical and cross-disciplinary (more...)