Social Ventures
In talking to E101 students, it is striking how many of them want to include a social component in their businesses. They are interested in both doing well and doing good.
1. OPENIDEO is breaking new ground with its Open Innovation platform. They post real social challenges online and invite the global community to solve them together.
https://openideo.com
2. Sauder’s Coast Capital Savings Innovation Hub is an accelerator program designed to support the growth of a strong group of social ventures. The Research Centre focuses on core issues of the carbon economy, the social economy and economic development in the First Nations community.
http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/Faculty/Research_Centres/ISIS/About
