Katharina Münster

Katharina supports the Communication and Digital Innovation agenda of iBAN. Prior to joining iBAN, she gained working experience in development cooperation, public communications, and academia. Among others, she worked as a student assistant for the Asia-Pacific Research and Advice Network, drafted country reports for the Myanmar Representative Office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, and supported public outreach activities of the GIZ Programme for Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains and Standards. Katharina holds a master’s degree in International Relations from the Free University of Berlin, the Humboldt University of Berlin, and Potsdam University. In addition, she studied abroad at Sciences Po Lyon and the University of Reading, UK.

Partnering for Impact in India: Big business can join forces with social enterprises to support India's inclusive growth

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In an article for the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Manju Mary George stresses on the need for a new model of development in India, which involves roping in big businesses to address the constraints to scale often faced by social enterprises. While she quotes the example of Fab India and Rangsutra to illustrate such a big business – social enterprise partnership, she signs off saying that activity in this arena is still nascent, and there is immense scope for such collaborations to contribute towards fueling India’s inclusive growth.

These are some of the reasons why the Business Innovation Facility in India is eager to work with large companies, social enterprises, and with building partnerships between them, as each add value to inclusive business, and can add value to each other.

Manju Mary George is a co-founder of Intellecap and part of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Community. Intellecap provides India country management of the Business Innovation Facility. Manju developed and leads Intellecap's business consulting practice, which advises and collaborates with a diverse range of private sector players engaging with the “base of the pyramid,” including social entrepreneurs, corporations, multilaterals, investors, and philanthropic foundations in Asia and Africa.

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