Good reads – our curated news review of the month July 2021
News

Tens of thousands of charging points should already have been set up in this country thanks to huge subsidies. But companies are being held back by official chaos and approval procedures. As a result, they prefer to take matters into their own hands. Just like our emonet project. (article in German)

Speaking of emonet: Umweltdialog, as one of Germany's leading CSR news providers, picks up on our project and helps to draw attention to this solution to the pressing problem of the lack of charging infrastructure. Many thanks for that! (article in German)

How can better framework conditions be created for social entrepreneurs and social innovations? Under the hashtag #Wegebereiten, the SEND network is addressing questions like these in its political talks in preparation for the 2021 federal election. (talk in German)

Researchers from the Department of Entrepreneurship at TU Darmstadt and the Innovation Financing Group at Fraunhofer IMW have investigated how the financing form of crowdfunding responds to covidual unusual social and economic development and whether it can add value to society in times of high uncertainty and financial instability. An interesting report with many real-world examples. It shows: Public funding quickly makes the most relevant and pressing challenges or the problems of companies known to a broad public and thus also visible in the media. (article in German)