THE ECONOMIC TIMES - Frustrated by government inaction, people take matters into own hands

Too big to fail is not exactly a term applied to democracies, but then the times are strange. Wrecked by endless years of recession and unemployment, people in the West are losing faith in their governments while in developing nations, people exhausted by political corruption, are wondering where their governments are.

Into this chasm of faith enter a raft of organisations that are testing unchartered waters: like solving grand world challenges, primarily by following the principles of entrepreneurship and innovation.