Global I&E

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.

The Challenge of Hardware Startups Part II

Hardware startups face unique challenges in bringing their solutions to scale. Learn how one hardware startup succeeded through early stage philanthropy.

The Challenge of Hardware Startups

Inventors and entrepreneurs working on hardware solutions aimed at those living in poverty need early and sustained philanthropic support in order to bring their ideas to fruition.

Here’s Why We’re Optimistic About the Future of the World’s Water

One might feel overwhelmed in the face of these issues. We don’t.

5 Trends That Will Shape Entrepreneurship Education in 2016

What comes next for entrepreneurship education? From our point of view, many challenges remain in the midst of this huge expansion. Here are five trends we’ll be tracking in 2016.

Xcelerator Workshop Insights: Unexpected Pathways to Breakthrough Solutions

Encouraged by the business strategy experts leading the workshop, the team began to think beyond the options they had previously considered.

Doing is the Art of Learning: Lessons from an Xcelerator Workshop

For Dr. Amy Webb-Girard, Xcelerator transformed her vision of the knowledge her students in public heath and nutrition need in order to have a greater impact beyond the university.

Inspired by Xcelerator: Strategic Tools for Institutional Transformation

The resources and planning tools used in Xcelerator extend beyond application to specific projects, with the potential to transform how organizations function to bolster sustainable global change.

University sanitation research enters business world with Xcelerator

There is an ongoing sanitation crisis in the developing world. Inadequate sewage disposal and overflowing latrines are a serious public health concern across the globe.

Xcelerator in Malawi: Innovations to save lives at birth

VentureWell’s 8th Xcelerator program was held in Malawi to strengthen innovations to save lives at birth.

Greenlight Planet: Bringing light to millions off the grid

Greenlight Planet has leveraged 6,000 micro-entrepreneurs who are earning a steady income by selling the company’s solar lights in their own communities, illuminating their neighbor’s homes.