Alina Boyte shares her experience from developing social enterprises at the Changemaker Institute, and insight into intellectual property law for social entrepreneurs.
The Changemaker Institute was launched as a public benefit corporation to empower businesses to create positive change in the world by 2030. They run programs, such as:
- The Changemakers Lab, a two-day workshop to help businesses get clarity on their impact goals
- The I-Scool, a 12 week online training program for social entrepreneurs
- The Changemaker Start-up Program, a program to prepare women / minority-owned social enterprises for capital investment
I found it fascinating that Alina Boyte, grew up in Malaysia, and her education led to her work in intellectual property law. Many social entrepreneurs have a background in business or the area of social impact they’re servicing, but don’t usually know much about intellectual property law. In the podcast, Alina breaks down what this means, and the basics of trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets. These elements can be designed to help companies develop assets and further value in their venture.
Beyond this, she shared how important it is for social enterprises to understand and correctly measure the impact that they’re measuring. It is very easy for social impact businesses to capture easy statistics, but quite often more work to find measurements that accurately reflect the impact they’re trying to make. She stressed how important it is to get these metrics right because they can inform how you grow and develop as a company, attract investment, and actually achieve what you’ve set out to do.
You can find out more about Alina, and these programs at:
