The creative industries represent a huge – and fast-growing – sector of the global market. But creative businesses are also building practical solutions to social problems and giving a voice to the marginalised.
Technology is the key to transforming the lives of disabled people, believes Ghanaian Derick Omari. His award-winning social enterprise trains people with disabilities to use IT to get educated and employed.
It has been a good year for this year's UK Social Enterprise of the Year award-winner, Cafédirect – but it hasn't always been this way. Pioneers Post hears the story behind the coffee company's fall and rise.
Nearly half of social entrepreneurs identified in new research carried out in the world’s fourth most populous country are aged between 25 and 34 years old. And it’s the creative industries where many of them focus their efforts.
Even small social enterprises should consider looking abroad to develop their business. But in most countries, more support for them to do so is needed.
Social innovation research and teaching is gaining currency in Hong Kong. We hear from an academic at one of the territory's pioneering universities on this topic.
A powerful new collaboration between academics and social entrepreneurs – the first of its kind in Asia – will help Hong Kong come up with new ideas to tackle its endemic social problems. And neighbouring countries could follow in its tracks.
