Local councils and community centres could soon be able to reprocess their recycled plastic waste thanks to an award-winning idea by UNSW Business School students.
Two UNSW teams are bound for Boston and London after reaching the regional finals of the Hult Prize – the world’s largest social enterprise competition offering a prize of $US1 million.
How would you improve the lives of people in crowded cities if you had $1 million? Students will have the chance to answer to this question at the Hult Prize competition, hosted for the first time at UNSW.
The construction sector needs to engage with social entrepreneurship to address growing social inequity and disadvantage in society, write Martin Loosemore and Dave Higgon.
Pollinate Energy is a social enterprise that aims to bring solar lighting to millions of India’s poor. The company was co-founded with two UNSW graduates, Ben Merven and Monique Alfris, who studied renewable energy engineering before using their skills to set up the company with three friends.
In Australia, we have supply of impact investment funds and demand from social enterprises, but we do not have the social and market infrastructure to connect the two, write Markus A Höllerer and Danielle Logue.
Two teams of UNSW students are in the running to win the ‘Big Idea’ social enterprise competition for their business plans that aim to create jobs for the homeless.
