Sunday, December 20, 2009

MIT Press Releases Special Edition of Innovations Journal Prepared for 2009 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum

Today at Davos-Klosters MIT Press and the Schwab Foundation for Social En¬trepreneurship will absolution a appropriate copy of Innovations account able for the 2009 anniversary affair of the World Economic Forum.

Cambridge, MA -- Today at Davos-Klosters MIT Press and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship will absolution a appropriate copy of Innovations account able for the 2009 anniversary affair of the World Economic Forum. The appropriate edition, blue-blooded Social Innovation in a Post-Crisis World, appearance cases and essays authored by arch amusing innovators from about the world.

"This year at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters, we are bringing calm those who can adapt our all-around abridgement to serve association added broadly," says Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum and Founder, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. "The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship has been announcement advocate amusing innovators who accept been about-face this accord amid abridgement and association for the endure decade. Innovations has committed itself to belief and announcement these Social Entrepreneurs in their seek for atypical approaches in technology, strategy, action and governance. We are appreciative to be accommodating with the editors of Innovations to aftermath this appropriate copy to accommodate these different insights to the apple leaders acquisition in Davos."

This year at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters, we are bringing calm those who can adapt our all-around abridgement to serve association added broadly From the addition to the appropriate copy by Philip Auerswald, founding co-editor of Innovations, and Mirjam Schöning, Executive Director of the Schwab Foundation:

"We are, appropriate now, in the bosom of a all-around about-face of ballsy proportions. Not alone is change occurring--as it consistently has--it is occurring with greater volatility, and greater reach, than anytime before. As a aftereffect of the abstraction about-face taken by the all-around bread-and-butter arrangement in the accomplished six months, millions of the world's citizens may descend, or return, into poverty--an alarming changeabout in the advance fabricated over the accomplished division aeon in advancing the animal condition.

"This accumulating of readings has been produced with one goal: to acquaint into the chat apparatus of a new accent to call the challenges ahead, and to action for your use the asperous cut of a new lens through which you may apperceive elements of a solution. The accent centers on the words 'social innovation'; the lens is advised to advice us all apperceive the mechanisms of animation in times of confusing change."

In accession to cases authored by arch innovators--Rory Stear, Kristine Pearson, Bunker Roy, Cosmas Okoli, Ibrahim Abouleish, Helmy Abouleish, and Karen Tse--the appropriate copy includes the afterward essays:
Social Innovation in a Post-Crisis World by Klaus Schwab and Hilde Schwab
Social Ventures as Learning Laboratories by J. Gregory Dees
A Bank as Courageous Investor by Ellen Seidman and Ron Grzywinski
Macro Impact on Microfinance by Roshaneh Zafar
The Upside of the Downturn: How Sustainable Banking Can Deliver a Better Future by Peter Blom
The Resilience Imperative: Philip Auerswald and Debra van Opstal
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This copy is the third in a alternation produced by Innovations for the World Economic Forum, in affiliation with the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Full texts of the aboriginal two editions are accessible here:
http://www.schwabfound.org/sf/Publications/Publications/index.htm

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