What’s the link between social innovation and shared value and is shared value a useful concept for social innovators? For most of the 20th Century, political debate hinged on the opposition ...
What does citizen engagement mean in the context of the disparate types of activity we understand as social innovation? We have suggested a framework that can help us to organise our thinking about...
What is the role of the social partners in social innovation? That is one of the questions that was raised in this morning’s workshop on social innovation hosted by Eurofound. Eurofound have ...
"Mine is better: how do you know your good practice is the best?” – the European Alliance for Families (EAF) Best Practice Workshop, 21 November 2012 in Brussels. TEPSIE contribute...
The big deal – how European notions of social innovation go head-to-head with the San Francisco sharing economy hotbed. Read the full report on the joint TEPSIE-MESHLABS workshop on “so...
I’ve just got back from an interesting workshop on “Measuring the Value of Social Innovation” hosted by the Work Foundation, an independent research centre which explores issues a...
In late September 2012, the “Danish Municipality Network on Social Innovation” was launched in Copenhagen, Denmark. With representatives of around one-third of Danish local governments ...
The University of Bologna recently hosted an international workshop on social innovation bringing together academics, policy makers, entrepreneurs and students. The Young Foundation presented its w...
While in some European countries social innovation flourishes contributing to the creation of new jobs and the sustainable development of local economies and societies, in Greece, the concept of so...
Politicians, scientists and practitioners discussed the results of a biennial research project on social entrepreneurship during a parliamentary evening at the Mercator Centre Berlin. Representativ...