Global Social Enterprise Design, Launch & Scale
All progress within 18 months.
Customers: UT Austin RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service and Dell.com wanted a global social innovation challenge competition that engaged student social entrepreneurs across the world.
Innovation gains: accelerator product included ideation, design, pilot launch and scale modules in an integrated challenge competition platform for university students in 100+ countries around the world. Implementation included both online and offline participation requirements, features and benefits for corporations through their employees engagement as mentors and judges.
The innovation design enabled the Challenge to become a self-selective competition ecosystem where student social entrepreneurs and teams right-sized their potentials by their own capacity and readiness for venture progress at every venture stage and in diverse global cultures, languages and venture disciplines.
Impact gains: achieved the largest and broadest engaged student social innovation challenge in the world within 18 months. More than 350,000 registered participants, 6,000 social enterprise teams and their supporters across 100 countries. The design also engaged mentors, investors, partners, supportive educational institutions and customers to accelerate their support and adoption of positive impact producing innovations that measurably improved our world.
Bonus impacts: SWP intellectual property and licensed product innovations accelerated founders execution abilities in ideation, design, pilot, scale and exit venture stage successes. SWP operational frameworks, tools and heuristics for stakeholder value creation became commercially valuable enough to spin the Challenge out from a not-for-profit University program into a for-profit startup venture – raising a $2.5 M seed round as Verb.
Additional SWP clients achieving innovation design, launch and scale projects of their own venture accelerators:
- University of San Diego Social Innovation Challenge (Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge);
- City of San Antonio Mayor's Office & Economic Development Department Launch SA Venture Challenge.
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