Social Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship is a business approach to creating and measuring positive social, environmental, and economic impact.

More Innovation Glossaries

Mindset Shift

A fundamental change in mindset and mental models in organizations. Open to explore new ideas, learn, and grow.

Dynamic Capabilities

Dynamic Capabilities

A company’s capacity to adapt to an evolving market through change, innovation, and learning. A firm's ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external resources to address rapidly changing environments.

Pitching

Pitching refers to the process of presenting a business idea in the hopes of receiving monetary or resource support.

Top Social Entrepreneurship Resources

Creating New Opportunities in the Digital Space

Creating New Opportunities in the Digital Space

The SIT method can be applied to digital assets such as websites, social media platforms, and mobile apps to create innovative solutions.

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Divide and Conquer

Divide and Conquer

Division is one of the five innovation templates of the Systematic Inventive Thinking method. It works by breaking a product into its components and manipulating them to create new, innovative constructs.

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How Creativity & Innovation Is Being Used To Improve Society

How Creativity & Innovation Is Being Used To Improve Society

Innovation and creativity are being applied to societal problems such as mental health, education inequality, substance abuse and infrastructure issues.

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Innovation for the Non-Profit Sector

Innovation for the Non-Profit Sector

Non-profits need innovation just as much as for-profits. Innovative methods, such as S.I.T, can help non-profits break fixedness and open up new approaches.

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Innovation Perspectives - Predicting Innovations

Innovation Perspectives - Predicting Innovations

Future products will be more mobile, adaptive, simple, specific, and ideal. The S.I.T. method is a great tool in creating these innovative products.

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Innovation Sighting: Buttons That Lie and the Subtraction Technique

Innovation Sighting: Buttons That Lie and the Subtraction Technique

The Subtraction Technique is one of five innovation methods in Systematic Inventive Thinking. By removing an element of a system, it can lead to new value or benefits.

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Intrapreneurship and Open Innovation for Small Business

Intrapreneurship and Open Innovation for Small Business

Learn how small and medium-sized companies can implement open innovation and intrapreneurship to take their business to the next level with tips from an innovation expert.

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Library Innovation Strategy - Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover

Library Innovation Strategy - Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover

The Human Library is an innovation in disseminating content that allows people to check out humans and listen to their personal stories, promoting understanding and diversity.

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The LAB: Creating New Logistics Packaging with SIT (May 2012)

The LAB: Creating New Logistics Packaging with SIT (May 2012)

Can innovation help grow the stagnant corrugated box industry? Students from the University of Cincinnati used the SIT method to come up with concepts like the Self-expanding Box and Know Tape.

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The LAB: Innovating Social Media Apps with SIT (August 2012)

The LAB: Innovating Social Media Apps with SIT (August 2012)

Learn how the SIT innovation method can be applied to social media apps for brand building and discover non-obvious applications for creating new, innovative services.

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The LAB: Innovating Your Wallet Using S.I.T. (December 2009)

The LAB: Innovating Your Wallet Using S.I.T. (December 2009)

Discover six innovative wallets designed by graduate students at the University of Cincinnati using the S.I.T. method, including a financial wallet, armor wallet, trendsetter wallet, shopper's paradise wallet, globetrotter wallet, and fitness wallet.

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Using Modern HR Tools to Gamify Training Programs

Gamification can make employee training effective and engaging by using specialized online training software with gamification elements like challenges, levels, points, competition, and collaboration.

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We are not facing up to the big Societal challenges of today?

We are not facing up to the big Societal challenges of today?

To tackle the big societal challenges, our organizations and societies need to allow people to step up in innovation. We need to build the desire of wanting to be part of rebuilding society and provide innovation tools, structures and methods that can help solve societal problems on a global scale.

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An image of a leaf integrated with gear shapes, symbolizing biomimicry.

Why is Mother Nature the greatest innovator of them all?

Mother Nature is the greatest innovator, with over 4 billion years of experience in innovation and transformation. Applying lessons from nature, known as biomimicry, businesses can learn from her to solve modern problems.

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Billion Dollar Burger

Billion Dollar Burger

The riveting story of the entrepreneurs and renegades fighting to bring labgrown meat to the world.

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