First German Primer on Inclusive Business

"Entwicklungsgeschäfte - Geschäfte machen gegen Armut" offers a comprehensive, practical and engaging entry point for all companies, entrepreneurs and development experts who want to learn more about how to fight poverty through business. You can download or order a copy. Join our wiki to get access to the content of the publication and co-develop it further!

Upcoming events

01.03.10 - Study trip to the townships of South Africa organized by the Confederation of Danish Industry in collaboration with FABCOS

19.03.10 - Third Inclusive Business Brownbag Lunch on public-private partnerships with GTZ in Berlin

News

01.01.10 - Design with the Poor: Aline Krämer receives Brazilian Management Research Fund Award

12.2009 - Genia Kostka launches two reseach projects with partners in China and India on climate change policies

11.12.09 - PhD students discuss latest research on inclusive business at the oikos UNDP Young Scholars Development Academy 2009

11.12.09 - PlaNetFinance: increased investment accrues to only few micro-finance institutions

04.12.09 - UNDP brokers test tools for inclusive business model development

16.11.09 – Impact of base of the pyramid ventures: The global BoP family meets in Delft

03.11.09 - Emergia launches its primer "Entwicklungsgeschäfte" at the GTZ Haus in Berlin

15.10.09 - Genia Kostka talks about the future of sugar cane at the International Workshop on Sustainable Energy Crops and Biofuels Development in China and Asia 

08.10.09 - Shuan SadreGhazi talks about “Taking Innovations to the Poor” at GLOBELICS in Dakar, Senegal.

06.10.09 - Shuan SadreGhazi talked about promoting pro-poor innovations at the international seminar on "Inclusive Business and Job Creation" at ICEI in Madrid, Spain

06.10.09 - Christina Gradl and Aline Krämer publish an interview with Samuel Shiroff from BSH titled "Favela Cool against Global Warming" in the recent issue of the Environmental & Poverty Times on the company's refrigerator replacement program in Brazil.

17.09.09 - Excerpts from publication "Entwicklungsgeschäfte" published on csr-weltweit.de

17.09.09 - Bertelsmann Stiftung publishes a white paper on tools for strategic CSR

16.09.09 - CSR Experts discuss approaches to aligning CSR and issue management

11.09.09 - First Inclusive Business Brown Bag Lunch: experts discuss quality management and consumer protection in low-income markets

01.08.09 - Follow us on Twitter at Emergia_Inst! We tweet about little-heard news in the inclusive business area with a particular focus on German players.

31.08.09 - Martin Herrndorf teaches on micro-insurances during the Summer School on "Development Policy" at the University of Cologne

13.7.09 - Emergia directors participate in the Kick-off Workshop of the Case Research Programme of UNDP's Growing Inclusive Markets Initiative

09.07.09 - Experts from business, development and academia come together to exchange ideas on how to collaborate with partners in innovation processes for inclusive business models

23.06.09 - Students discuss "What are the challenges and opportunities of micro-insurance?" at the LMU, Munich

09.06.09 - Jianghua Zhou and Genia Kostka present paper on public-private partnerships in China at the Joint Actions on Climate Change, Aalborg, Denmark.

01.06.09 - The Research Center for Design and Sustainability (UFPR) and the Emergia Institute launch idea competitions with low-income consumers in Brazil.

31.5.09 - Genia Kosta, Christine Polzin and Jenny Scharrer publish article on ‘The future of sugar cane in China and India’

20.05.09 - Piera Waibel and Christina Gradl publish article on business opportunities in low-income markets in io new management

19.05.09 – Claudia Knobloch answered the question: “Is every slum a place for BOP-activities?” at the ICEP conference “Entwicklung findet Stadt” in Vienna

29.04.09 - Regional UNDP GIM Initiative Eastern Europe and CIS kicks off with a working group meeting in Brussels

23.03.09 - Christina Gradl presents findings of the UNDP report "Creating Value for All" to 400 participants of the International CSR Conference in Cairo.

20.03.09 - Emergia Institute announces launch of German Primer on Inclusive Business for October 2009 in cooperation with BMZ, GTZ and DIHK

26.02.09 - During a brownbag lunch, employees of the Bertelsmann Stiftung discussed opportunities and barriers of business approaches for poverty alleviation with Christina Gradl.

21.02.09 - Engineering students learn about inclusive business model development as part of a course on Energy Entrepreneurship and Rural Electrification at TU Berlin