The Platform Design Toolkit 2.0
The new tool has been published to assist entrepreneurs and organizations to look at business and activities, to design strategies, products and organizations "as a platform." As [...]
Roman Aranin: wheelchair pilot
Roman Aranin is a social entrepreneur from Kaliningrad (Russia). In the past, a military pilot, then a successful entrepreneur, Roman broke on a paraglider. The result is [...]
SAMforSE – A Self-Assessment Manual for Social Entrepreneurs
The buzz is steadily increasing about tools that measure the impact of social enterprises and standardized metrics for assessing social, economic, and environmental impact. However, there are [...]
Publication “Thematic Cluster on Social Inclusion”
Recently the European Commission has released a publication about the use of EU-Funds for Social Inclusion, titled “Social Inclusion: Inspiring Trends in European Funded Projects”. The publication summarises the outcomes of a [...]
Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds
Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds "Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds: Outcome-based Payment Systems in the Uk and Us" is a new book [...]
Game Changers and Transformative Social Innovation. The Case of the Economic Crisis and the New Economy
ABSTRACT This paper discusses transformative social innovation, conceptualised as the process through which social innovation contributes to societal transformation. A conceptual heuristic is introduced that proposes five [...]