Calling for Submissions: Asia Social Innovation Award 2010

Have you come across social issues that you believe can be solved? Do you have simple ideas in mind that could help solve these problems? If yes, you too can bring about a Social Change! Asia Social Innovation Award 2010 (“ASIA SIA”) http://www.socialinnovationaward.asia ASIA SIA is currently open for level-zero innovative ideas that could solve some of the pressing urban [...]

mBillionth Award South Asia

mBillionth Award South Asia: Apply if you use mobiles for environment, governance, health, education etc. Application deadline: 31/5 http://mbillionth.in/ Mint newspaper has started a weekly series on mBillionth Award featuring about the award, its nominations and also featuring selected innovative nominations: one could be seen here today at http://epaper.livemint.com/artMailDisp.aspx?article=17_05_2010_010_006&typ=1&pub=422

Business plan competitions 2010 for Asia

While the number of business plans are increasing internationally only a fraction of them are open to students from Asia. Here some for which you can apply: Global Social Venture Plan  Competition (Global) Application  deadline: January 31, 2010 Lee Kuan Yew Global Business  Plan Competition (Global) Application  deadline: March 31, 2010 Asia Moot Corp 2010 [...]

What is your dream to change the world?

Dell recently launched its 2010 Dell Social Innovation Competition, with the mission to encourage students around the world to identify solutions to tackle social problems. Any significant social issue can be addressed in this competition. The competition has 4 stages: College students from around the world enter the competition online, each with a brief description [...]

Its competition time!

Its the time of the year in which a number of business plan and social venture competition are trying to attract your attention. A few of them are: Queen’s Entrepreneurs’ Competition Now in its 22nd year, the Queen’s Entrepreneurs’ Competition brings together some of the brightest young entrepreneurs from around the world to compete for [...]

India’s Biggest Business Plan Competition for Social Entrepreneurs

via The Social Innovation Blog: Villgro presents the annual Business Plan Competition for social innovators. Wantrapreneur is all about identifying ideas that have the potential to transform lives and nurturing them to become market-ready products and services. So if you have an idea that you think can change lives, apply now. The top two winners [...]

Global Social Venture Competition 2010 launched

The Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) was launched in 1999 as the first graduate-student competition of its kind, to promote entrepreneurial start-up companies which offer measurable social or environmental benefits in addition to profits. To enter the GSVC-SEA competition, a team which includes a graduate business student from any school submits a five-page executive summary [...]

Google’s 10 to the 100 competition calling for votes

Google’s Project 10 to the 100 has identified social entrepreneurship as one of the top 16 ideas that will change the world. Now they are asking you to vote to help them identify the biggest opportunity for change. You may also nominate an organization who you feel is best placed to carry out the idea. [...]

Business Week’s selection of Asia’s Best Young Entrepreneurs

Business Week has release their finalist list for the annual Asia’s Best Young Entrepreneur award. The list includes 25 young entrepreneurs mainly from Indonesia, but also from Japan, Singapore and Korea. I found it astonishing to find no indian finalist in the list and their heavy reliance on winners from previous other entrepreneurship competition. Nevertheless [...]

Call for Social Enterprise Business Proposals from Hong Kong

Hong Kong Social Investment Forum – November 14, 2009 At this year’s SE Summit, there will be a special session known as the Social Investment Forum to provide a number of funders/investors who are keen to invest in social enterprises a platform to share their criteria for selecting investees. At the same Forum, max 3 [...]