A market for ideasA pioneering “innovation marketplace” is making steady progress A PROBLEM shared is a problem solved: that is the belief that inspired InnoCentive, a firm that describes itself as the “world's first open innovation marketplace”. Conceived in 1998 by three scientists working for Eli Lilly, a big drug company, InnoCentive was spun off as an independent start-up three years later. I
There are higher-yielding varieties of groundnut than those that farmers in Malawi tend to plant, but getting them to switch is tough. Better seed is pricey, increasing their risk. So researchers from the World Bank ran an experiment. With local NGOs, they offered the farmers loans. Some loans even came with a crop-insurance policy: if the season was dry and the yield a dud, the debt would be forg
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What we invest in today will determine the world we live in tomorrow. Impact investing is unlocking significant sums of private investment capital to complement public resources and philanthropy in addressing pressing global challenges. The GIIN is proud to play a leading role, alongside others committed to growing this marketplace. Join the GIIN and hundreds of impact investors who are engaged in
THE old debate about whether, or to what extent, financial markets are a force for social good has taken on a new urgency in the aftermath of last year's market meltdown. Plunging the world into recession is, after all, as clear an example as any of anti-social behaviour. As around 800 people gather in San Francisco this week at the SOCAP09 conference, to map out the future of what they call “soci
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