• Professor in Innovation and Impact, UNSW
Impact investing emerged in 2007 out of global discussions on how to mobilise more capital to tackle societal problems. shutterstock

Explainer: the rise of social impact investing

Impact investments are designed to achieve a measurable social or environmental – as well as financial – return.
Australia has had enough reports on innovation. It’s time for NSW to “do innovation”. Lenny K Photography/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/lennykphotography/

Reimagining NSW: five ways to future‑proof NSW’s innovation ecosystem

Here are five ways to strengthen innovation in NSW, so that all the talk of “being innovative” translates to actually “doing innovation” into the future.
Could social stock exchanges become as commonly used by investors as our financial markets? AAP/EPA/Justin Lane

Social stock exchanges – do we need them?

Public interest in the development of global impact investing received a significant boost last year, due to an international campaign to divest in fossil fuels by superannuation, pension, and university…
US students have led a nationwide campaign to persuade universities to ditch fossil fuel companies from their endowment funds. James Ennis/Wikimedia Commons

Fossil‑free superannuation is an idea that’s going to snowball

The launch of Future Super, which claims to be the first super fund in Australia to exclude fossil fuels and their major supporting companies from its investment portfolio, has drawn significant attention…
A lot of ideas about entrepreneurs are based on myth, according to new research. Flickr/Thomas Hawk

The ‘myth’ of the Australian entrepreneur

We are still awaiting the details of the Federal Government’s Entrepreneurs’ Infrastructure Program, and how this may impact the Australian entrepreneurial ecosystem. While this program is estimated to…
Impact investing is a growing phenomenon but many mainstream investors are wary of it. Image sourced from www.shutterstock.com

Impact investing: grabbing a piece of the $650 billion market

The World Economic Forum reports there is widespread confusion regarding what impact investing promises and what it ultimately delivers. Some estimate it is a market worth between US$450 billion and US$650…
The reputation economy is growing - and it may not even need you to do it. Image sourced from www.shutterstock.com

It’s the next Facebook and it doesn’t even need you

At first it was organising and selling user-generated content and data, now it seems “they” don’t even need you. What if there was a company that scraped the web and mapped your connections, showing you…
We need to take a better look at the role women can play in the Millenium Devlopment Goals. AAP/EPA/Harish Tyagi

Challenge 11: How improving women’s status helps us all

In part 11 of the multi-disciplinary Millennium Project series, Danielle Logue and Mel Dunn note the striking absence of male voices in discussions of women’s empowerment, despite it being fundamental…
In today’s world, businesses have to find new ways to tackle wicked problems. luxamart

Wicked problems and business strategy: is design thinking an answer?

Obesity. Climate change. Brain drain. Tax havens. War in Afghanistan. All have been described as “wicked problems”. UC Berkeley scholars, Rittel and Webber, coined the term in 1973 when they were reacting…
Toyota’s decision to escort redundant workers off-site using security guard caused “undeserved harm” and may also have undermined morale and potentially affected productivity. AAP

Is the Toyota way the only way?

UPDATE: Workers for transport company 1st Fleet were handed redundancy notices when they arrived for work this morning, after the company ceased trading. Are we seeing something of this same attitude recently…

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