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.
Would Nesta have funded the Grameen Bank and can Coca-Cola really be classed as a social innovator? Dr Andrew Curtis and Tara Anderson warn that social innovation might have lost its way.
Thatcher and Reagan were perhaps the world's greatest neoliberalists – until now. Dr Andrew Curtis and Tara Anderson urge us to consider the motivations of those governments that are embracing the concept of social innovation today.
Speaking at the UK's Emerge conference for young entrepreneurs seeking social change, Hanli Prinsloo founder of I AM WATER gave an insight on life exploring the ocean, the dangers of ego and the path to work with purpose.
