I have just read an article by Krzysztof Wittels entitled “The era of the social capital. Forgotten achievements of Warsaw enterprises 1864-1939” and published at the leading Polish por...
The Polish scientists headed by Professor Krzysztof Tchoń from the Department of Cybernetics and Robotics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, have created a social robot that can communicat...
Understanding barriers to social innovation By Karsten Frøhlich Hougaard, senior consultant, Danish Technological Institute Why are we not witnessing an explosion of social innovation initia...
During the last year, Georg Mildenberger, Stina Preuss and Gunnar Glänzel from the Centre for Social Investment (CSI) have been involved in the process of drafting and publishing an agenda for...
Three pressing social problems and the startups that could solve them. Healthcare costs – Sentrian Long term conditions such as heart disease and diabetes account for fully 70% of the NHS&rsq...;
The latest edition of the Tepsie newsletter is now online. You can read it here.
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 in the sector of priva...
