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Social Venturing: EN on social innovation panel
8 March 2010
Euclid Network (EN) Executive Director Filippo Addarii was part of an expert panel on social innovation as part of The Social Innovator Series.
The event was to mark the culmination of a major two year collaboration between NESTA and The Young Foundation to develop a rich, practical resource for social innovators.
This event launched the ‘Social Innovator Series', a collection of publications and accompanying website that reveal the vast potential of this new social economy. The report which was launched, Social Venturing, was written by Geoff Mulgan, Robin Murray and Julie Caulier-Grice.
The Series presents a varied, vibrant picture of social innovation in practice featuring hundreds of examples, methods and tools from all over the world.
Though social innovation is a rapidly emerging practice, methods for developing this vital field remain relatively hidden. Having a better understanding of social innovation - the new ideas (products, services and models) that simultaneously meet social needs and create new social relationships or collaborations - is increasingly urgent as existing structures and policies struggle to make an impact on the most pressing issues of our time.
The website accompanying the series is hosted in partnership with Euclid Network partner, the Social Innovation Exchange (SIX).
This event is just the beginning of many EN activities on social innovation, starting with the Telepresence event on Social Innovation also in partnership with SIX.