As a team focused on social innovation research, it’s helpful to be reminded once in a while that innovation is not something we should pursue as an end in itself. Or as one colleague put it ...
On December 10th 2012 the first Roundtable on “Investing in Social Entrepreneurship” took place in Hamburg. The roundtable was organized by iq consult in cooperation with BBO Wirtschaft...
In this short paper we outline our working definition of social innovation. This definition was developed as part of the TEPSIE programme. It is very much a working definition and we welcome commen...
Aaron Hurst, founder and president of the Taproot Foundation has written a useful series of blogs for the Stanford Social Innovation Review on scaling of non-profits. He argues that although there ...
Much has been written about social innovation on the one hand and social investment on the other. Nevertheless, when we want to say something meaningful about generating capital flows for social in...
On the 16th and 17th of November, over 50 invited participants gathered at the Old Bishop’s House in Lund for a co-creation workshop to discuss and establish the founding of the new Lund Univ...
The first year of the TEPSIE project is coming to an end. We sum up 2012 in this Christmas-edition newsletter and provide you with the latest updates on our research. You can also read our take on ...
On December 14, 2012, the Greek Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Welfare organised in Thessaloniki, Greece an awareness raising forum on social entrepreneurship in which a lot of stakeholder...
In 2012, the Rockefeller Foundation commissioned research looking at some of the methodologies that are leading to social innovations around the world, with a particular focus on Africa and Asia. A...
Carlota Perez is one of the world’s most influential thinkers on innovation and its relationship with economic growth and development. She describes ‘great surges of development’ ...
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