What is social innovation? Decoding challenges and tailwinds for India's entrepreneurs ft. Manoj Kumar

India is the third largest innovation ecosystem in the world. From India's transformational growth in the IT sector to her rapid digitisation, innovation is truly having its moment in India today. However, despite this promising outlook, social innovation continues to face challenges to scale.

Faced by the perennial challenge that the problems for people and planet are running faster than the solutions being created to solve them, social innovation has a critical and lasting role to play in ensuring we break the cycle of creating poor solutions for the poor. In this episode of Decoding Impact, Rathish Balakrishnan and expert guest Manoj Kumar engage in a dialogue on social innovation that is not only helpful to understand the innovation landscape in India today, but to also numerous ideas and examples of what social innovation looks like.

Through this discussion you will get insight into:

• India's innovation landscape

• The mental models for entrepreneurs to succeed

• The architecture needed for social innovation to scale

• How we need to look at unlocking diverse forms of capital from across CSR and Philanthropy

Tune into this latest episode of Decoding Impact today!

Manoj Kumar is the founder of Social Alpha, a multistage innovation curation and venture development platform that has supported over 300 startups under his leadership. Manoj is one of the pioneering forces in India's social innovation landscape, with a wealth of expertise and hands-on experience founding startups.

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Guest: Manoj Kumar

Host: Rathish Balakrishnan

Producer: Meenakshi Iyer

Produced by: Pickle Jar Media