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grant money and contracts: which is right for your venture?

Grant money and contracts can offer early-stage innovators with many benefits, but how do you determine which funding source is right for your venture?

innovating for low-resource settings: learnings from the d-tree international experience

Water-Energy Nexus: A Connection That’s Driving Innovation

For World Water Day, we spoke with three ventures operating at the water-energy nexus to learn how they’re addressing strains in both resource systems.

Intensive Design Experience: Preparing Engineering Students for the Real World

An intensive design experience simulates a high-performance team situation to show students what it takes to succeed in the workforce or as an entrepreneur.

Building Startup Ecosystems: Good for Innovators, Good for the Economy

Heath Naquin profiles two I&E programs that are amplifying startup ecosystems to support innovators and drive economic growth.

Innovator Spotlight: Katya Cherukumilli

Katya Cherukumilli is the founder of Global Water Labs, a nonprofit startup developing a scalable and affordable fluoride removable technology.

Innovator Insights Series: Mastering Strategy Development

Strategy development involves identifying unknown variables around a target market, challenging assumptions, and maximizing breakthrough moments.

Innovator Insights Series: Understand In-Country Context

Early-stage global health innovators need in-country context when working to commercialize technologies in emerging markets.

Innovator Insights Series: Build a High-Performance Team

Early-stage innovators building a team require a mix of scientific and technical talent as well as commercialization skills and business acumen.

Innovator Insights Series: Maximize Support Networks

Innovators who maximize support networks are better able to navigate the complex innovation and entrepreneurship journey.

Innovator Insights Series: Preparing for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Journey

Innovator Spotlight: Ibrahim Mohedas

Ibrahim Mohedas of SubQ Assist found that absorbing information from diverse stakeholders has been the most important aspect of the startup process.

Drinkwell: Cleaning Water, Generating a Profit

Drinkwell is transforming the world’s water crisis into entrepreneurial opportunity.

Five Ways Early-Stage Inventors are Tackling the Global Water Crisis

From water conservation to increasing access to clean drinking water, inventors in our community are working to solve water-related issues around the world.

Applying Lean Startup Methodology in Developing Countries

Lean startup is becoming a pervasive part of entrepreneurial communities, but hasn’t been applied extensively to social innovation for developing economies. Why not?

The VentureWell List: 2016

2016 was a banner year at VentureWell, and 2017 is shaping up to be even more exciting. Here’s a quick summary of how we helped grow innovation and entrepreneurship in 2016.

Five Models for Scaling Up a Global Health Venture

A new guide published by USAID offers a variety of approaches that global health innovators can use when scaling up their ventures.

So, You Want to Be a Global Health Innovator?

Take a look at these six tips for global health innovators. They may help you plan out your next steps with greater clarity.

Four Themes Shaping Innovation & Entrepreneurship Education

I&E education is prospering as a field, but what are the next steps? Here are four areas of focus that will get us to where we want to go.