November 2011 - InnovationAfrica

Designing an Agribusiness Innovation Center in Senegal

Senegalese stakeholders from the horticulture sector came together during a workshop on November 10, in order to discuss the design of a local agribusiness innovation and entrepreneurship center (AIEC). Go to Source ...

SELCO: A Business, Ongoing Case Study in Solar-Powered Social Impact

Authored by: Usha Ganesh Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the November 2011 edition of Searchlight South Asia, a monthly newsletter created by Intellecap for The Rockefeller Foundation to report trends in urban poverty around the South Asia region. The project started in September 2009 as way to highlight on-the-ground urban issues and initiatives...

Breakthrough in the battle against malaria

Study identifies new ways to kill the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum Source: Freebase An international team of scientists has announced a breakthrough in the fight against malaria, paving the way for the development of new drugs to treat the deadly disease. ...

Strategy for Managing Intellectual Property in Open Innovation

An article on the Bloinc site notes that open innovation is clearly taking root in just about every industry as organizations strive to create openness in their innovation and business processes. We see companies increasing their ability to leverage internal and external solutions yet struggle with building the right processes and tools to extract maximum value from the...

Development of an integrated product-service roadmap with QFD: A case study on mobile communications

Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a concrete integrated roadmap structure and a supporting tool for efficient roadmapping, to enhance interdisciplinary research on product-service. ...

The Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators

Creativity and innovative thinking are not genetic traits. What makes people great innovators is not their genetic makeup, but a set of skills and behaviors. The good news: anyone can learn, practice, and master the skills necessary to become a disruptive innovator. Similar Products: Powered by The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive...

What the 1 Percent (of Capital Markets) Could Do for Impact Investing

Authored by: Logan Yonavjak How can we unlock new sources of capital from retail investment to ensure impact investment opportunities aren’t just for the wealthy? While major investment banks have alluded to the promise of impact investing, (think J.P. Morgan in its 2010 report with The Rockefeller Foundation, which included an analysis of 1,100 impact investments...