Nesta, in collaboration with Glasgow Caledonian University and TEPSIE are hosting an international conference on social innovation in the UK on 14th and 15th November 2013. The event will take plac...
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...
Social Innovation: Driving Force of Social Change SI-DRIVE extends knowledge about social innovation (SI) in three major directions: • Integrating theories and research methodologies to advanc...
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...
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...
The INNOSERV Consortium is organising a high level expert meeting in Brussels to assess the status quo and identify future challenges, trends and research gaps related to innovation in the social s...
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...
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 ...
Approaches to Research on Social Innovation: Learning from One Another for the Future Last week, I attended a really interesting research seminar hosted by WILCO. The WILCO consortium brought toget...
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...
Announcing a new call for forward-thinking research on social innovation Today we’ve published a call for proposals for a major research and policy conference on social innovation, to be held...
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’ ...
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 ...
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), ...
Meeting of Europe’s Foundations, Regions and Cities for Social Innovation 24-25th October 2012 Committee of the Regions, Rue Belliard 101, B-1040 Brussels The European Network of Foundations ...
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...
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...
Social platform on Innovative Social Services INNOSERV is focusing on identifying the future potential of innovative services including the multifaceted activities of different stakeholders as well...
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...
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, ...
European Social Innovation Week 2015 will, this year, be held from the 14-18 September 2015 at the Sporrzone in Tilburg, Netherlands. Admission is free but registration is necessary and can be comp...
The CRESSI Project is a four year project funded by the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme that was initiated in February 2014. CRESSI explores the economic underpinnings of social innovation, ...
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...
In October I visited the Dutch city of Eindhoven for the World Health and Design Forum. Planned in conjunction with Dutch Design Week, the event aimed to boost social innovation and inspire people ...
Three pressing social problems and the startups that could solve them. Healthcare costs – Sentrian Long term conditions such as heart disease and diabetes account for fully 70% of the NHS&rsq...;
As part of Tepsie’s work on the ecosystem necessary to support social innovation, I recently conducted some research on social innovation labs. Social innovation labs aim to provide a neutral...
On 19-20 May 2014, the European Commission’s DG Research and DG Employment organized a potentially ground-breaking conference on “social policy innovation”. A mixed audience of ov...
Recent years have seen a growth in the use of ‘evidence-based policy’, a movement which has grown out of the success of evidence based medicine, and healthcare research networks such as...
When people discuss social innovations, they often focus on the successful cases which have spread far and wide. But to what extent does this reflect the reality of social innovation? And what does...
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...
Polish social entrepreneurs, encountering barriers in their actions, often thought with envy about their colleagues from other European countries. Paulina Wajszczak acquitted the fifteen errors, ch...
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...
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...
Just to promote sustainable city development leaders of Lodz (city in the Central Poland - http://en.uml.lodz.pl/) co-finance activities of non-governmental organizations via Social Innovation Fund...
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...
The Social Innovation Summit is a twice annual event that brings together top executives and thought leaders from around the globe to discuss opportunities for leveraging technology & innovatio...
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...
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...
Jeremy Millard (Danish Technological Institute) and Anna Davies (Young Foundation) report back from the INNOSERV international workshop on innovation in social services, 17 May 2013, Brussels INNOS...
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...
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...
