The 2015 European Commission Social Innovation Competition launched this week and aims to find the best business ideas to tackle the most pressing issues in Europe – ageing populations, climate change and more.
This week we bring you our pick of social innovation updates around the world, from California to Singapore, PLUS a special social innovation education digest featuring the universities of Vermont in the US and Nottingham in the UK.
Reporting exclusively from Dhaka, Ellie Ward says the home of Grameen and Brac is calling for government backing for Bangladesh's emerging social enterprise success story.
Just realised four years of your life could go down the drain? About to tell all staff you are cutting their pay? Meet Helen Trevaskis and Maff Potts, interviewed by Liam Black as he explores The Social Entrepreneur's A-Z chapter one: A is for Anxiety.
RBS breaks social enterprise targets in the UK, a Ugandan-Dutch mobile phone social enterprise receives US$1 boost and one of the US's most prestigious Ivy League business schools opens specialised social enterprise hub.
New year (just), new name – Pioneers Post is committed to reporting on social innovation all over the world. To reflect this we've changed the name of our weekly round-up. From India to Sheffield see our pick of innovation news this week.
Primary health care providers in developing countries must become more entreprenurial and embrace alternative options for financing treatments, according to new research.
Danish social entrepreneurs explore the idea of a start-up island, Scotland's community sport sector recieves a bonus in time for Christmas and the gender wage gap debate heats up in the UK.
In the final part of their analysis Dr Andrew Curtis and Tara Anderson question the drive to make social innovation more mainstream and call for the re-discovery of the term's origins.
