By Georg Mildenberger In a 2013 SIR blog article, Rachel Schon discussed the TEPSIE telepresence, where Gunnar Glänzel and I highlighted the mismatch between the needs of innovators and the re...
One of the most known Polish private university, Kozminski University, organize for the first time postgraduate studies on "Social innovation in the economy". The aim of the study is to p...
Recently, I wrote a blogpost here offering some possible links between social innovation and religion, where I mentioned the important role that Christian organisation The Trussell Trust has had in...
Although we tend to primarily concentrate on the voluntary sector and the social economy to track social innovation, we have always emphasised that it can and does also occur, to a very large exten...
Nationwide Meeting of Social Economy (NMSC) is organized in Warsaw, Poland on 23 and 24 October, 2014. It is the eight Meeting and, as in the previous editions of NMSC, organizers invite social ent...
Last week I was lucky enough to attend some of the events of the ‘Unusual Suspects’ festival in London, which was co-hosted by Social Innovation Exchange, the Calouste Gulbenkian Founda...
Written by Marlieke Kieboom, research advisor at Kennisland. Marlieke designs new research methodologies and learning infrastructures for teachers, civil servants and professionals. And she likes w...
It is often said that social innovation is a broad church, with researchers coming from many different disciplines – sociology, business studies, urban planning, economics etc. However, one s...
The ALS #icebucketchallenge is thriving and obviously causing some debate in and beyond social media these days. And it goes like this: In front of a camera, a person pours a bucket of ice water ov...
Written by Anton Shelupanov, Associate Director at the Centre for Justice Innovation (CJI). The world of social innovation has been good at learning from other sectors. Concepts such as venture cap...
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