Events
13 March 2018
Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Workshop
- 08.40 Registration, 16.40 Close
- Room B0.08, Brockington building 69, Central Park, Loughborough LE11 3TU
Ticket Information
Free event
Please register by email to Faa, F.Binti-Kamaludin@lboro.ac.uk
About this event
The International Business, Strategy and Innovation (IBSI) group is hosting a Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIE) Workshop. The aim of the event is to provide a platform for sharing research experiences and learning from key stakeholders. The workshop will showcase the global research activities of the IBSI group as well as feature presentations from social entrepreneurs and investors working on a range of complex problems in finance, education, logistics, migration, tourism and healthcare. The workshop will facilitate an open discussion on improving scholarship-practice alignment and highlight exciting new opportunities for conducting impactful SIE research.
Timing |
Content |
8:45 |
Registration (Foyer area, Brockington Building) |
9:15 |
M.N. Ravishankar, Professor of Globalisation and Emerging Markets, Loughborough University A roadmap for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship research |
10:00 |
Session 1: Talks 1-2 (Chair – Michelle Richey, Loughborough University) Danyal Sattar, Head of Social Investment, Joseph Rowntree Foundation UK How do investors evaluate a social enterprise? Charlie Fraser, CEO and Founder, TERN UK How to build a sustainable social enterprise? |
11:15 |
Coffee break |
11:30 |
Session 2: Talks 3-4 (Chair - Andrea Lagna, Loughborough University) Michelle Aitken, Loughborough University Reflections on managing a social enterprise in Guatemala Raja Pappu, COO, CareAxes UK Planning for social innovations: A returnee entrepreneur’s viewpoint |
12:30 |
Lunch |
13:15 |
Session 3: Talks 5-6 (Chair – M.N. Ravishankar, Loughborough University) Mithun Srivatsa, CEO, Blow Horn Solving intra-city logistics problems and generating social impact Rangan Varadan, CEO, Micrograam and CEO, Billion Loans Enabling income generating opportunities for the rural poor via social innovations |
15:00 |
Coffee Break |
15:15 |
Session 4: Talks 7-9 (Chair – Jade Brooks, Loughborough University) Andrei Gurca, NEOMA Business School Social enterprises as intermediaries for (more) inclusive markets Anand Sankar, Founder, Kalap Trust Charity versus for-profit: The founder’s dilemma Arun Harish, Founder, UTSAAH UK Mobilising resources to support social enterprises |
16:30 - 16:40 |
Closing remarks and next steps: M.N. Ravishankar and Michelle Richey |