Daniel Bornstein, globetrotting documentarian of the “social entrepreneurship” school of development, has an opinion piece in today’s New York Times introducing recent White House efforts to leverage prizes as a mechanisms to “pull” innovation into government. It is hard to escape the fact that the examples of “tangibles” (non-software and data based inventions) cited are [...]

These days I am occupied – nearly obsessed – with an idea for a new social venture start-up in Vermont – a state that thrives on individual pluck within an awareness of the whole.  With luck, you would join a very small, very accomplished group of advisors to this new venture, all of whom have [...]