For social entrepreneurs, innovation is about developing creative solutions to seemingly intractable systemic challenges. Numerous barriers exist that reinforce the system’s status quo, including patent and regulatory restrictions, long-held beliefs and behaviours, and lack of infrastructure among others. This session features three different perspectives on systems innovation, and explores ways that new approaches, technologies and business models can help social entrepreneurs break through to large scale change.
Session Description
Time & Location
Time:
09:00 - 10:30, Friday, April 1, 2011 BSTSpeakers
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SpeakerDesign Director, IDEOTom Hulme is Design Director at IDEO, London, where he uses a human-centred innovation approach to design new businesses. A serial entrepreneur and angel investor, he has firsthand experience in building successful enterprises and, as a result, he has a thorough understanding of business…
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SpeakerFounder and CEO, Cambia, Professor, QUT, NICTARichard is a prominent molecular biologist, social entrepreneur and innovation systems strategist. He founded Cambia, an independent non-profit social enterprise to democratise problem solving using science-enabled innovation. Richard developed the landmark hologenome theory of evolution, the…
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SpeakerCo-Founder and Executive Chairman, M-KOPANick Hughes has been at the forefront of mobile commerce activities in emerging markets for over 10 years. He is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of M-KOPA, a company providing pay-as-you-go solar energy services in East Africa. Nick was previously Head of Mobile Payment Solutions at…
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SpeakerPartner, Hornthal Investment PartnersJim Hornthal is a parallel entrepreneur, angel investor, and educator. Jim is the co-founder and Chairman of Zignal Labs, LaunchPad Central, and M34Capital. His private investment partnership has invested in more than 50 startups including Lyft, Lending Club, KIND Snacks (Mars), Krave Jerky…