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These simple, unheralded, little-known technologies may just change the world, one chewed gum, solar-cooked dish or sanitized hand at a time.
Huffington Post listed 11 of these inventions that include Sweet Bites, Mamori, SwipeSense, Infinite Bakery, Portapure, Smart Pipe, SCiO, The OrbSys, Smartwheel, Ecovative, and Power Felt.
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Social Entrepreneurship
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Impact of Procurement Law on Social Enterprise
Chris Brophy, partner at Capsticks Solicitors LLP, explains the impact does procurement law have on social and mutual enterprises. Brophy states that in order to enable a social or mutual enterprise to succeed, it needs “to give the existing work-force, service-user base and relevant stakeholders the time and opportunity to develop a new organization.”
