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One of key principles of Hub Kyiv is collective intelligence, that is created by way of interacting with the group of people around certain topic or question that matters together with guests, experts, consultants, authors of books, art people and others interested parties.
We strive for providing an opportunity for everyone to share their experience, knowledge and inspiration with others. That is the reason why we decided to dedicate one of the sections of our web-site to this idea.
Here you will be able to find interesting articles, links to useful resources, presentations, etc. Our team of creative and curious people will enrich this “depository” for everyone who will have a desire to join our network. But what is more important we will give the opportunity to anyone who wants to associate them with this interesting and useful work and help us to fill this section.
Helpful & inspiring tools
TOOLS & NETWORKS
place to access innovation, knowledge, market opportunities, inspiration and experience Social enterprise with the ambition to inspire and support imaginative and enterprising initiatives for a better world. Global community of people from every profession, background and culture. Working across 4 continents and 12 cities – to create places that borrow from the best of a member's club, an innovation agency, a serviced office and a think-tank to create a very different kind of innovation environment.
- Resources and knowledge for practicing inspired hosting
- The World Café community
- The Open Space community
- Ashoka
Global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs – men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, over 2,000 leading social entrepreneurs were elected as Ashoka Fellows & provided with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 60 countries.
Provides entrepreneurial education for young entrepreneurs and project leaders with a creative edge and a global mind.
Online community for small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs
Learning network of young leaders 25-35
3 inspiring days of ideas, fun and sensory stimulation in media, technology, entertainment, art and science
Community of exceptional young leaders who share a commitment to shaping the global future. Each year the World Economic Forum (Davos) identifies 200-300 extraordinary individuals, drawn from every region of the world.
Opportunities & inspiration
Entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to the world in video format, uploading the videos to Virgin's website, where the online community can view and rate their idea
a Silicon Valley company that lets entrepreneurs pitch their "next big thing" to potential investors via short web videos
UK version of vator.tv that describes itself as "Dragons' Den meets YouTube" and besides letting start-ups pitch their ideas to attract funding, the website also aims to provide other services for entrepreneurs, like directories of business opportunities, franchises, businesses for sale, etc.
- Legal aspects of social entrepreneurship development in Ukraine (attach corresponding article by Olexander Vynnykov)
- Measuring entrepreneurship: a digest of indicators (research by OECD)
- First European Small and Medium Businesses Week
Small business. Big ideas. May 6-14, 2009
- Ukrainian entrepreneur – innovator or organizer psychology? (Ukrainian language only)
· The year aims to raise awareness of importance of creativity and innovation for personal, social and economic development; to disseminate good practice, stimulate education and research, and promote policy debate and development.
- Ideas worth spreading
- New media tools in plain English www.commoncraft.com
- Ideas for the better world in all spheres www.worldchanging.com
- Thoughts on the art & science of bringing cool stuff to life metacool.typepad.com
- Seed magazine www.seedmagazine.com
The fundamental story of our world today and to provide information and knowledge to help you prepare for the story tomorrow
- Trend watching www.trendwatching.com
Check-out the latest trends in the world (including - Minipreneurs)
a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns
- David Bohm on Dialogue
- Innovations: Technology/Governance/Globalization, journal by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Innovations is about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges. The journal features cases authored by exceptional innovators; commentary and research from leading academics; and essays from globally recognized executives and political leaders. The journal is jointly hosted at George Mason University's School of Public Policy, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and MIT's Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship.
The world’s largest independent innovation company. Working with clients who genuinely want to innovate and grow, helping them release the creative potential of their people, products and brands. They do this by working for a fee or as joint venture partners on innovation projects. Team of over 250 with offices in the UK, USA and China.
International project designed to help raise awareness about the changes that creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation can bring about in cities. It’s about improving people’s lives. The project covers a wide range of issues including: public spaces, arts and social activities, and policy-making.
Social innovations & innovators
Not-for-profit organizations starting for-profit or earned-income ventures? not-for-profit organization? business owners who integrate social responsibility into their operations? Start by looking into the roots of the term “entrepreneur.”
In 2002, Jamie Oliver combined two ambitions:
- to open a top class restaurant and
- to give disadvantaged youngsters the chance to gain professional training that would set them up for an independent, inspired and productive life.
This social enterprise has entertained hundreds of thousands of people who have loved this fantastic food; their custom and support has directly helped transform the lives of apprentices. They’ve grown so much, now running Fifteen restaurants (each with their own foundation and apprenticeship schemes) in Amsterdam, Cornwall and Melbourne.
Bangladeshi banker and economist, professor of economics, developed the concept of microcredit. Yunus is also the founder of Grameen Bank (Nobel Peace Prize in 2006). The Grameen Bank is also diversified into separate organizations:
- the fisheries project – Grameen Motsho (Grameen Fisheries Foundation)
- the irrigation project – Grameen Krishi (Grameen Agriculture Foundation).
- Grameen Trust & Grameen Fund – run equity projects like Grameen Software, Grameen CyberNet, and Grameen Knitwear, & Grameen Telecom. The Village Phone (Polli Phone) project of GP has brought cell-phone ownership to 260,000 rural poor in over 50,000 villages.
Environmentally-focused group of entrepreneurs fighting global warming and other environmental issues
Network set up by a group of organizations to help build the emerging field of social innovation. Many of the big world problems – from climate change to the care needs of an ageing population - will only be solved by experiment, enterprise and innovation, and that innovation needs to tap into the creativity of every part of civil society, business and the public sector.
Change the world. Make some money. Nonprofits were born because for-profits weren't addressing some market failures--pollution, poverty, illiteracy. Profit won't cure those ills, but it's becoming a bigger part of more solutions. Along with the 45 world-changing nonprofits, they also honor 10 companies not only striving to make a profit, but to also make a difference.
Created by Jeff Skoll in 1999 – to pursue his vision of a world where all people, regardless of geography, background or economic status, enjoy and employ the full range of their talents. Skoll – the first employee and first President of eBay – believes that strategic investments in the right people can lead to lasting social change. The Skoll Foundation connects social entrepreneurs with key people/resources through a number of academic, business and community channels. The foundation launched the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Saïd Business School (University of Oxford).
Identifies the world’s leading social entrepreneurs (20-30 social entrepreneurs annually) for the global contest. Builds community. Supports the participation and active involvement of its selected social entrepreneurs at the regional and global meetings of the World Economic Forum (Davos). Works with Harvard, Stanford, and INSEAD to provide scholarship opportunities to the best executive education courses in the field to the selected social entrepreneurs.
Social entrepreneurs drive social innovation and transformation in various fields including education, health, environment and enterprise development. A social entrepreneur, similar to a business entrepreneur, builds strong and sustainable organizations, which are either set up as not-for-profits or for-profit companies.
Centre for social innovation based in London, with a 50 year track record of success in creating new organizations – public, private and non-profit - as well as influencing ideas and policies
Origins lie in the Institute for Social Inventions (set up 1985 by Nicholas Albery, social inventor and visionary extraordinaire). From small beginnings (a network of inventors, a quarterly newsletter), the Institute grew into a fully-fledged organization under his leadership: producing an annual compendium, running social inventions workshops and promoting creative solutions around the world. Part of the first European Social Innovations Exchange. Database of nearly 4000 ideas online. Hundreds of ideas are submitted each month by people from all over the world, and over 160,000 visitors voted on the site with a rating.
Social enterprise with a mission to catalyze social innovation in its home base of Toronto and around the globe.
Conversations network channel
Charity which supports social entrepreneurs provides a complete package of funding and support.
- Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard Business School
Aims to inspire, educate, and support current and emerging leaders in all sectors to apply management skills to create social value.
Collection of related articles
…19 Ukrainians sent their applications to the contest...: Leonid Bogatyrchuk (winner) established Elbrus healing and recovery center in Zhitomir. The know-how is his own special course of hypoxytherapy, which mobilizes hidden reserves of human body. Modeling of respiratory gas mixtures takes place at gas separation units engineered by Mr. Bogatyrchuk. The center of the social entrepreneur has already helped more than 48 ths. Ukrainians to recover, including 42 ths. of Chernobyl area residents…
