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5 Trends Accelerating the Acceptance of STEM Professionals in Sustainable Development
STEM innovation has led to many of the biggest social impacts in recent human history: chlorinated drinking water, oral re-hydration therapy, solar energy, and many more that we often overlook or underestimate. Fortunately, as STEM professionals forge their way in the social innovation space, there are five major trends accelerating their acceptance as sustainable development practitioners.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise, Technology
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How can South Africa drive youth innovation and entrepreneurship?
Nearly a third of South Africa’s population is under the age of 14. As things stand, their future is uncertain. The economy is stagnant, the political landscape is shifting, and unemployment is at a record high. It’s possible to turn all that around, but doing so means equipping young people with skills beyond those found in the schooling system creating an environment which doesn’t just see entrepreneurship and innovation as viable options, but as necessities.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- innovation
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Impact investing fund for students launched in Nigeria
Venture Kinetics, led by Jobberman founder Opeyemi Awoyemi, and Passion Incubator have partnered the launch the FastForward Student Innovation Fund, an impact investing fund focused on innovations of students or recent graduates of Nigerian universities.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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NexThought Monday: The Role of STEM Professionals in Global Sustainable Development
The science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) community is changing. Many passionate, hardworking students are not as excited about taking up well-paying, but arguably monotonous, jobs in large corporations. Their big question is: what do we do next? To answer this question, Khanjan Mehta of Penn State spent over three years interacting with hundreds of innovators to find new pathways toward careers in social innovation and global sustainable development.
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- Energy, Technology
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- employment, innovation
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Patent case in India highlights tensions between public health, protecting innovation
A recent case in India highlights some of the intersections between drug affordability, the need for patent protection on innovation, and differences between national patent law.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- innovation
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Can Emerging Nations Create Their Own Silicon Valleys?
According to Alec Ross, other nations around the world should give up trying to create their own versions of Silicon Valley.
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- Technology
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- innovation
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Want to Succeed in Health Care? Find the Right Price, Place and Partners
Innovations in Healthcare's search for its newest cohort of innovators included more than 180 private-sector organizations and uncovered several trends in technology, investment and strategies to address chronic disease. The top organizations illustrated three broad ideas in market-based health care: the right price, partners and partners.
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- Health Care
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Actually, It IS Brain Surgery
Located in the small, remote town of Mbale, Uganda in the far eastern part of the country, the CURE Children’s Hospital of Uganda might seem an unlikely place to pioneer a neurosurgery solution. The medical team operates in a resource-scarce environment, yet they've found a way to serve their population and the infants afflicted with serious brain disorders. They're so good at the procedure, it's been widely exported to the United States.
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- Health Care, Technology
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