Univators

www.eyif.eu   The European Young Innovators Forum (EYIF) is a non-profit, pan-European platform launched in July 2010 to give voice to a community of young innovators who believe in the value of shared ideas and shared risks. EYIF members come from diverse, multidisciplinary, international backgrounds across Europe and have the common conviction that innovation is [...]

Across the world, social entrepreneur seems to be the buzzword du jour. However, the term itself is, arguably, conflicted because it combines two different ideas – society, from the same root as social, and the risk-taking individual, from the root “entreprendre”.   Today social enterprises are found on the entire continuum of the not-for-profit and [...]

Born in an underserved part of downtown Chicago, Natalie and her five siblings had to survive moving from city to city to find work. No stranger to adversity, Natalie was determined to make something great out of her life.   At 17, Natalie saw the documentary Invisible Children: The Rough Cut, a film exposing Africa’s longest [...]

Even in the driest of deserts, there’s a hidden water source: the air.   That’s the insight of this year’s Dyson Award winner. The annual prizes call on “design and engineering students from 18 countries to create innovative, practical, elegant solutions to some of humanity’s greatest challenges,” according to The Huffington Post.   This year [...]

Social entrepreneurs apply different growth strategies depending on their company’s development stage and whether they have quantitative or qualitative value-adding ambitions. It is about finding an optimal organizational size and the right way to grow in terms of development, rather than pursuing growth for the sake of growth.   In other words, size does not [...]

Here is a Quora post that I bumped into yesterday browsing the Silicon Valley based Q&A service. This question, leading this vigorous and serious conversation highlights a serious issue :   Why doesn’t Silicon Valley focus more on global impact issues and on the solutions that could be found about those various issues ?   [...]