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The annual Social Business Week is an annual programme organised by the Grameen Creative Lab@NUS (an initiative of the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre) to inspire, connect, and engage an audience ranging from social entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, social venture investors, academia, government, civil society and youths.

We are pleased to announce the 2012 Social Business Week happening on the 20-23 February 2012. This is a week-long public programme that includes public lectures and a 2-day boot camp for social entrepreneurs to develop and refine their social business plans. A highlight of Social Business Week 2012 is the active participation of Professor Muhammad Yunus, initiator of social business and Nobel Peace Laureate. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet Professor Yunus and network with social entrepreneurs and other like-minded individuals.
 
 Overview of the week:

► 20-21 February, Social Business Boot Camp

► 22 February, Forum for Corporate Leaders and a talk on Social Enterprises in Australia

► 23 February, Public lectures for Youths and Policy Makers

 

  What is Social Business?

A social business, coined by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, is a business that is created in order to solve social problems. A social business can be described as a non-loss, non-dividend company, where any additionally generated profit stays within the company, in order to increase its outreach and maximize its social impact.

Click  here to find out more about Social Business.

The Grameen Creative Lab@NUS aims to promote and incubate innovation-based social businesses in Singapore that have the potential to generate scalable and sustainable social impact.