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  • Venturing into Growth Industries with High-Impact Capital

    23rd in a series of excerpts from the book "The HIP Investor" (John Wiley & Sons, 2010). See other published articles in the series here ( bit.ly/gSJMtU ). How do impact investors spur long-term innovation? Through garage startups, which can also be sexy. That’s where William Hewlett and David Packard originated what’s now known as HP, or Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ). Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin followed in that tradition ...

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    Reuters (link opens in a new window)
    Categories
    Health Care
  • Green Businesses in Developing World Get $60M Boost, Along With Microfinance

    The International Finance Corp. (IFC), a member of the World Bank group, is launching a $60 million equity financing mechanism to "promote homegrown green innovation in developing countries while encouraging the transfer of clean technologies from developed countries to developing countries." The Cleantech Innovation Facility will help small, highly innovative start-up companies that offer products or services that mitigate carbon emissions. It will n...

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    SustainableBusiness.com (link opens in a new window)
    Categories
    Health Care
    Region
    Latin America
  • Creating Demand With Social Marketing: ColaLife’s Approach

    Too often ventures forget they need endeavor to create demand for the products they offer in BoP markets. ColaLife is a rare example, as it thought this through this early in the design phase. Fitting into the unused spaced between crated bottles, ColaLife’s "AidPods" contain Anti-Diarrhea Kits (ADKs) for home use by mothers and caregivers.

    Categories
    Health Care, Social Enterprise
    Tags
    Base of the Pyramid
  • Malaria Scientist Celebrates Success After 24 Years

    For Joe Cohen, a GlaxoSmithKline research scientist who has spent 24 years trying to create the world's first malaria vaccine, Tuesday, October 18, 2011 goes down as a fabulous day.

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    Reuters (link opens in a new window)
    Categories
    Energy, Health Care
    Region
    Sub-Saharan Africa
    Tags
    solar
  • W/Video Via ViewChange, Oxfam: This World Food Day, Making it Africa’s Last Famine

    In 2009, 200 households in the northern Ethiopian farming village Adi Ha enrolled in an Oxfam America program letting them trade work for insurance against draught. This year over 13,000 families in 45 villages enrolled. As draught threatens East Africa, this 1/2 hour documentary from ViewChange and Oxfam shows how investments can break the cycle.

    Categories
    Health Care
    Tags
    nutrition
  • Finding Value in Waste

    As the number one exporter of Brazil nuts, Bolivia cultivates approximately 20,000 tons a year. Only 0.8 percent of the Brazil nuts are exported with their shell; the rest are cracked and their nutshells are discarded as waste. But the founders of PelletBol, developed a method to compress the Brazil nutshells into pellets as a source of biofuel.

    Categories
    Health Care
    Tags
    nutrition, waste
  • Addressing Dynamic Public Health Concerns: LifeStraw and Beyond

    UNICEF and the WHO estimate that approximately 1.5 million children die every year from diarrheal diseases. While these statistics are striking and cause for concern, knowledge and experience about treating diarrheal disease is one advantage we have when addressing this public health concern.

    Categories
    Health Care
    Tags
    product design
  • Chotuwash, and More

    The Godrej Group is walking the talk on ’Good and Green’, its brand campaign. If the low-cost refrigerator ChotuKool that runs on both battery and electricity created a buzz because of innovation (how much of it translated into actual sales is not known as yet), the Godrej Group is already ready for more. While ChotuKool is gearing up for national distribution through the postal system, in the pipeline are a slew of products targeted at the bottom of the pyramid. For examp...

    Source
    Business Standard (link opens in a new window)
    Categories
    Health Care
    Region
    South Asia
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