Academics in Bangladesh call for policy guidelines around corporate social responsibility, the US government invest in 25 Asian social enterprises and in the UK David Cameron chimes in on social enterprise success in the north.
A £10m investment to help give social enterprises, cooperatives and charities access to crucial financial resources has been made by the Royal Bank of Scotland.
What does responsible capitalism look like and how can the social investment market be scaled to create more impact? These were some of the big issues up for debate at Good Deals 2014 – the UK's leading social investment conference.
Would Nesta have funded the Grameen Bank and can Coca-Cola really be classed as a social innovator? Dr Andrew Curtis and Tara Anderson warn that social innovation might have lost its way.
Catch up on the action at last week's RBS SE100 Awards which celebrated the most resilient, fastest growing and innovative social enterprises in the UK.
Australia's first permanent marketplace exclusively for social enterprises is launched in time for the Christmas shopping rush and tech start-ups looking to solve social issues are brought together in Israel.
The chancellor George Osborne plans to raise threshold for eligible investments in social enterprises to £5m a year under social investment tax relief.
Thatcher and Reagan were perhaps the world's greatest neoliberalists – until now. Dr Andrew Curtis and Tara Anderson urge us to consider the motivations of those governments that are embracing the concept of social innovation today.