On Wednesday 11th December, Social Innovation Exchange and Tepsie hosted a Telepresence discussion exploring methods of financing social innovation. We heard a presentation from Gunnar Glänzel...
What’s the link between social innovation, systemic change and societal transformation? This blog has been written by Julie Simon. Over the course of the two days of the Social Frontiers conf...
Accessing financial resources has been and remains to be a major barrier for social innovators. Their widely acclaimed potential to contribute to solving severe problems of modern societies is seve...
Polish social entrepreneurs, encountering barriers in their actions, often thought with envy about their colleagues from other European countries. Paulina Wajszczak acquitted the fifteen errors, ch...
At the beginning of November, we have participated in the “Hello Impact” event which took place in Athens, Greece. This event was the second step towards the launch of the Impact Hub At...
A recurring theme at Social Frontiers was the question of how best to research social innovation. In a session dedicated to discussing this issue, we heard four papers that took distinct approaches...
After a year of planning, Social Frontiers finally arrived last week. The two days were full of great presentations, and discussions from researchers across the world who are focusing on social inn...
Here in the research team at The Young Foundation, we are gearing up for Social Frontiers which takes place this Thursday and Friday. The event, held at Glasgow Caledonian University’s London...
The Greek society after suffering the effects of the economic crisis, started to make its first steps in constructing the foundation of social economy. More and more actions were initiated in order...
Last month I attended an event at The RSA: “Are Service Users The Key To Systems Change?” This featured Dr. Charlie Alcock of MAC-UK in conversation with Chris Wright of Catch-22 and Cl...
