One of the key strands of TEPSIE work we’re leading at the Young Foundation is looking at the relationship between citizen engagement and social innovation. Although participation and engagem...
Over three days this September, academics and practitioners working in the field of social innovation and social enterprise met for the International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC), ...
On June 19th 2012 it was announced that 10 million guest nights had been booked on Airbnb, an online service that matches people seeking short-term accommodation with people who have rooms to rent....
Although there is growing interest in the potential for social entrepreneurs to tackle social problems, a persistent issue is their ability to scale up their operations. The Big Venture Challenge &...
Crowdfunding has emerged in recent years as an increasingly important source of grants and investment for new ventures. It involves using online platforms to pitch a proposed project to an online a...
On 24-25 September, researchers, policymakers, social entrepreneurs and other key social innovation actors gathered in Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmö in Sweden to discuss solutions to Europe&...
Today, a new Social Innovation Competition was launched by the European Commission in memory of Diogo Vasconcelos. The competition was announced by President José Manuel Durão Barroso...
At the Ignite Athens event in September 2012, Neelie Kroes (the European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda) talked about the importance of what she terms disruptive innovation using ICT as the ke...
Despite the growing interest in social innovation among policymakers, foundations, researchers and academic institutions around the world, there is currently no common definition of social innovati...
In recent years, the social sector has neared consensus on the need to improve measurement and evaluation of its work and impacts. Although several different methods are currently in use, it is wid...
