In this guest blog, Ute Stephan, Malcolm Patterson, Ciara Kelly outline their recent research on how organisations can drive social change. Organisations, both small and large can play an important...
Impact Investment Impact investment is a growing field looking to find market solutions to the problems of global poverty. It aims to achieve good financial returns while creating positive social o...
Research related to innovation is often associated with technical and technological innovations, i.e. new products and services. Modern socio-economic research has led to the emergence of new forms...
Social enterprises and social innovation are closely related concepts but the relationship between them is not well understood or explored. For example, the assumption is often made that all social...
When comparing the structural configuration of Social Economies across Europe, it becomes evident that associations are a significant share of the population. However, people tend to associate asso...
Approaches to Research on Social Innovation: Learning from One Another for the Future Last week, I attended a really interesting research seminar hosted by WILCO. The WILCO consortium brought toget...
This week, a new research project looking at the drivers and barriers to social innovation in the public sector was announced. Funded by the EU's FP7 framework, the LIPSE research project (Lear...
Announcing a new call for forward-thinking research on social innovation Today we’ve published a call for proposals for a major research and policy conference on social innovation, to be held...
Transforming whole systems has never been more important. Youth unemployment, poverty, addictions, crime and criminalisation, low levels of educational attainment amongst vulnerable groups and home...
The European Union has recognised social innovations as an important way of tackling social challenges and obstacles. Yet, there are several steps that have to be taken to get a resilient, internat...
