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How can the public sector promote and benefit from social innovation? This question is being answered in a new book which recently hit Danish book stores. It’s translated title is ”Crea...

Is social innovation a phenomenon that should take place completely detached from the realm of government? Should local governments just let go and let social innovators invent and drive the local ...

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...

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 Danish welfare system is traditionally based on a large public sector. With the average working Dane paying 44,2% in marginal tax, the public sector is expected to be the actor that detects soc...

This post was written together with Jimmy Kevin Pedersen, senior consultant at DTI. At best, a national strategy puts forward a common vision, sets a clear direction and sends a clear message to al...

After a year of planning, Social Frontiers finally arrived last week. The two days were full of great presentations, and discussions from researchers across the world who are focusing on social inn...

What is nudge and what does it have to do with social innovation? Much has been said about how Barack Obama harnessed the power of the social web in his ultimately successful bid for the White Hous...

A Renewable Energy Sources Cooperative (REScoop) is a group of citizens who collectively invest in renewable energy. There are approximately 3.000 REScoops across Europe. They work together on a lo...