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The Future of Conservation NGOs Innovation Challenge is on!

Impact Hub

To tackle this matter, Impact Hub partnered up with the Luc Hoffmann Institute and the IUCN CEESP* to launch the Future of Conservation NGOs Innovation Challenge. To remain relevant and legitimate, in addition to effectively dealing with the present global ecological crisis, conservation NGOs need to radically shift.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

The fact of the matter is, most startups, particularly ones built by young professionals with no network and no track record, aren’t going to get funded. HackNY is a terrific example of how academics should be inspiring innovation. So what role, then, should local schools be playing in the innovation ecosystem?

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Circularity tales: Environmental entrepreneurship in Dakar

Impact Hub

Josephine Tine, co-founder of ART-Pesoung, Hadji Malick Sagne, of Cactus Innovation, and Adja Aissatou Diallo, founder of Galle epitomise the transformative potential of sustainable solutions in Senegal’s shift towards a circular economy.

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Circularity Tales: environmental entrepreneurship in Dakar

Impact Hub

However, the technical support and idea incubation available remain small. . Named “Wërngël-Bi”, a term in Wolof that translates to “The Circle”, the circularity programme at Impact Hub Dakar supported different entrepreneurs carrying out projects that ranged from eco-construction to ecological toilets.

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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

Impact Hub

It is clear that without rapid innovation on a global scale, what we eat in our cities and how we produce it poses an existential challenge. In 2018, Impact Hub King’s Cross kicked off an incubation program for UK-based social entrepreneurs aiming to combat the key challenges in our urban food systems. Networks for change.

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

Lawyers and accountants tend to err on the conservative side, leading to a low failure rate of businesses but less “moonshot innovation,” shall we say. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate.

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “We are not only focusing on innovative entrepreneurship.

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