This book is about the many ways in which people are creating new and more effective answers to the biggest challenges of our times: how to cut our carbon footprint; how to keep people healthy; and how to end poverty.
It describes the methods and tools for innovation being used across the world and across different sectors - the public and private sectors, civil society and the household - in the overlapping fields of the social economy, social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. It draws on inputs from hundreds of organisations to document the many methods currently being used around the world.
tools
and behaviors that are developing to
make economic exchange,
transactions, payments, commerce,
distributed collaboration, resource
allocation, and social enterprise
formation as frictionless and fluid as
possible.
Benefit corporation, is a new class of corporation in the United States, required by law to create general benefit for society as well as for shareholders.