
Identify three drivers of social innovation: growth of social inequality, lack of adequate government support, and market failure.
Explore social process innovations that renew existing societal processes to improve lives and drive social change for refugees, homeless, and those lacking education, as shown by Mercy Foundation in Australia.
Explore human centered design as a customer-focused approach that fosters empathy and loyalty while delivering data-driven solutions, guiding teams through discover, analyze, create, and test.
The triple bottom line frames sustainability through economic, social, and environmental value, measured via frameworks like GRI reporting and B Corp certification.
Explore Grameen Bank's microcredit model led by Muhammad Yunus, revealing collateral-free loans to poor village women, its global replication, social impact, and the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
The world today is deeply submerged under lots of social problems. More than ever before, world needs heroes, saviours and social change makers to step forward to tackle social challenges faced by societies. Given in the face of intractable social challenges, the knowledge on social innovation can be a great way to solve the big problems which are often unmet by public organisations or market-based solutions. This course will give you an in-depth understanding on what is social innovation and how to become a social innovator. The course will go in-depth into the theories of social change making and analyse social enterprise ventures around the world to illustrates how mere ideas can bring radical changes in the society. You will get access to a number of activity sheets, exercise files which are used to provide training to social entrepreneurs and social enterprises.