Students no longer want to wait to see social change, they would rather create the change themselves, and more and more of them are realizing that they have the capacity to do so through social innovation.
Academic institutions have also increasingly begun to offer courses in innovative and social entrepreneurial thinking, where growing numbers of students have been able to catalyze social innovations to form their own enterprises. Embrace, a low-cost infant warmer designed to save the lives of vulnerable infants, emerged from a 2007 combined business and engineering class project at Stanford University.
In environments made up of students with diverse professional backgrounds, classes are taking various approaches to set out on social innovation to solve complex social problems.
More here: http://zahrabhimani.com/2013/08/24/social-innovation-in-academic-settings/
Zahra Bhimani has a Bachelor’s degree in Communications. She recently graduated with a Master’s in Public Health, with a special interest in health communication.
More about Zahra here: http://zahrabhimani.com/about
Zahra has also written for TheIsmaili.org: Gala strengthens partnership between Ismaili Community and Quebec
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