Funded by the EU's FP7 framework, the LIPSE research project (Learning Innovation in Public Sector Environments) identifies drivers and barriers to succesfull social innovation in the public se...
Written by Anton Shelupanov, Associate Director at the Centre for Justice Innovation (CJI). The world of social innovation has been good at learning from other sectors. Concepts such as venture cap...
What is CRESSI? The CRESSI Project is a four year project funded by the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme that was initiated in February 2014. The CRESSI (Creating Economic Space for Social In...
Written by Anton Shelupanov, Associate Director at the Centre for Justice Innovation (CJI). CJI’s website is http://justiceinnovation.org/ Hate crime is a highly emotive issue, and not someth...
On Friday I attended the WILCO final conference which took place in Brussels. The project has generated some real insights and for me personally, identified a number of issues which are worth furth...
The research project Third Sector Impact, which is part of the EU’s seventh framework program, is a collaborative project involving 14 research institutes in Europe. It was launched in Januar...
Transnational Network for Social Innovation Incubation – TRANSITION – is a 30-month project that supports the scaling-up of social innovations across Europe by developing a network of i...
Seminar on 23 October at Brunel University, "Adding Public Value". The talk by Paul Waller will describe a field-tested methodology for investment appraisal in social innovation that inco...
In March 2013 ResPublica published a new essay collection entitled ‘Making it Mutual: The ownership revolution that Britain needs.’ Within its pages, policy-makers and practitioners cal...
Social Innovation: blurring boundaries to reconfigure markets brings together some of the leading thinkers from the field of social innovation and provides a wide array of perspectives, insights an...
This one day seminar, a joint event between the Third Sector Research Centre and the UK~Innovation Research Centre, will explore the assumptions concerning the extent and meaning of innovation in p...
In the last decade the global food system has become more hierarchical and complex than ever; the customer has become further detached from the sources of their food while a handful of large compan...
The concept of the ‘sharing economy’ – a world where access to goods and services trumps ownership – now has major traction. The concept is being proved by the success of nu...
Each year ISIRC brings together the international academic community focusing on social entrepreneurship, enterprise and innovation. This year's conference will be hosted by the Said Business S...
In April, we will run two TelePresence events, kindly hosted by the Social Innovation Exchange (SIX) and Cisco. You can read more about SIX TelePresence events here. Our first TelePresence on April...
Social Polis: Social Platform on Cities and Social Cohesion Social Polis is an open social platform for dialogue between scientific and policy communities as well as civil society organizations and...
ServPPIN is a research project which focuses on the role of public and private services on growth and welfare and the particular role of public-private innovation networks (PPIN). Public-private in...
The COCOPS project (Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future) seeks to comparatively and quantitatively assess the impact of New Public Management-style reforms in European coun...
On Friday the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) hosted a talk by William Janeway on the subject of his new book, ‘Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy’. Janeway was join...
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...
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...
Social entrepreneurs as "lead users" for service innovation SELUSI stands on two distinct but synergetic research pillars. One pillar aims at furthering our understanding of emerging soci...
Innovation in the Public Sector PUBLIN was a research project under the EU Fifth Framework Programme. It studied policy learning and technical and administrative innovation in the public sector, an...
The Theoretical, Empirical and Policy Foundations for Social Innovation in Europe TEPSIE is a research collaboration between six European institutions aimed at understanding the theoretical, empiri...
Social Innovation, Governance and Community Building From Territorial Innovation Models (TIM) to Alternative Models for Local Innovation (ALMOLIN), over the last 15 to 20 years, the European scient...
Welfare innovations at the local level in favour of cohesion The effort to strengthen social cohesion and lower social inequalities has been among Europe’s main policy challenges. Local welfa...
On 6 October 2015, experts from both sides of the Atlantic gathered at the German Center for Research and Innovation in New York City to discuss what success factors lead to lasting social change, ...
2015 is the centenary year of the birth of Michael Young (1915-2002), pioneering social scientist, political activist and social innovator. To mark this anniversary, the Young Foundation is hosting...
The ‘Unusual Suspects Festival’ will, this year, be held in Glasgow from 7th-9th October 2015. The event will be bringing together a range of participants from Scotland and around the W...
Why should social innovators and investors step up efforts to advance gender equality? What kind of gender equality innovation could make a difference that can be felt in people’s everyday li...
Most people would say they are in favour of creativity in public services, but many have struggled to implement this in practice. As part of the Royal Society of Art's (RSA) ‘Power to Cre...
Recently, I wrote a blogpost here offering some possible links between social innovation and religion, where I mentioned the important role that Christian organisation The Trussell Trust has had in...
The 6th International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC) 1-3rd Sept 2014 is an open conference that brings together scholars from around the globe to discuss the role of innovation in so...
In early July, Intentionality CIC published a report called ‘Social Enterprise: What’s Love Got To Do With It?’ This was written by well-known social enterprise commentator David ...
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...
Here in the research team at The Young Foundation, we are gearing up for Social Frontiers which takes place this Thursday and Friday. The event, held at Glasgow Caledonian University’s London...
Last month I attended an event at The RSA: “Are Service Users The Key To Systems Change?” This featured Dr. Charlie Alcock of MAC-UK in conversation with Chris Wright of Catch-22 and Cl...
This blogpost has been written by Lubomir Billy. Before I left Slovakia for my internship in the UK, my family and friends were asking me what I would do there. Learning, gaining contacts and infor...
A busy few weeks for the Tepsie team means it is already a month since I attended the 5th International Social Innovation Research Conference, this year hosted at the Saïd Business School at t...
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...
In a new collection of essays published by LGiU, the Local Government Information Unit, Jonathan Carr-West argues that English local government is at a crossroads. Funding has been cut and challeng...
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 Control is a UK based charity that helps local authorities to establish systems that give users financial autonomy over their own care. The charity was a pioneer of the concept of ‘self-di...
Social Business Conference - SBC12 9 October 2012 LSO St Luke’s, 161 Old Street, London, UK The ClearlySo seventh annual Social Business Conference will explore the movement of social investm...
4th International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC) 12-14 September 2012 Hosted by the Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham. Each year ISIRC brings together the intern...
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