The Open Book of Social Innovation – part of a series on methods and issues in social innovation – is about the many ways in which people are creating new and more effective answers to the biggest challenges of our times: how to cut our carbon footprint; how to keep people healthy; how to end poverty.
It describes the methods and tools for innovation being used across the world and across the different sectors – the public and private sectors, civil society and the household – and in the overlapping fields of the social economy, social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. It draws on inputs from hundreds of organisations around the world to document the many methods currently being used. This book provided a first mapping of these methods and of the conditions that will enable social innovation to flourish.
The work is the result of a major collaboration between Nesta and The Young Foundation: two organisations that are committed to the role that social innovation can play in addressing the most pressing issues facing society today.
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Posted on: 1 March 2010 Authors: Geoff Mulgan, Robin Murray,