1. UK Network Inaugural Forum Birmingham 1 st October 2014 Increasing Social Innovation Capacity Louise Pulford, Director, Social Innovation Exchange ( SIX)

2. The Social Innovation Exchange ( SIX)

3. Know who is doing what already Understand how it works And have the capacity and skills to do it yourself SIX connects people around the world to:

4. Building a ‘field’ of social innovation 4 Connect a worldwide network of more than 6000 innovators across 6 continents Curate of relevant and up to date thinking and practice of social innovation Work with governments including across EU, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Colombia Web-based innovation exchange of knowledge and action, funded by EU Convene face-to-face meetings for social innovators

5. Five broad uses of the term social innovation 1.Social change and transformation 2.Social cohesion and empowerment 3.Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship 4.Business strategy and organisational management 5.New products, services and programmes

6. 6 Process/methods (e.g. user led design, prototyping) Networks and spaces (e.g. SIX/Hubs/labs/ incubators) Impact investors/social investment (e.g. Big Society Capital, Bridges Ventures) Business CSR (e.g. Shared Value) Social enterprise (e.g. Dialogue in the Dark, Working Rite, Fair Trade) Social economy (e.g. Spice, Mondragon, The Co-op) Philanthropy (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Omidyar Network) Digital social innovation (e.g. Sharing Economy) Informal networks (e.g. Transition Towns, Slow Food, Barefoot network) Policymakers (e.g. EU, national levels) Who does social innovation? Global Social Innovation Mapping the field

7. 7 Schools of Thought/Research Traditions for Public and social innovation Non-profit management (e.g. Stanford Social Innovation Review) Third sector studies (e.g. TSRC) Social economy (e.g. EMES) Social entrepreneurship (e.g. INSEAD and CASE at Duke) Socio-technical systems/transitions (e.g. SPRU) Public administration (e.g. Harvard Kennedy School of Government) Design studies (e.g. DESIS) Resilience studies (e.g. Waterloo Institute) Global Social Innovation Mapping the field

9. An ocean of social innovations 9 Crowdsourcing Radical transparency CSR to develop BoP products Wikipedia Harlem Children’s Zone Khan Academy Charter schools Academies Innovation in Social services Innovation done Socially Innovation in how we Socialize TACSI Family by Family Escuela Nueva Hammarby Sjöstad eco-town Facebook Texting/IM etc Avaaz Move On All Out 38 Degrees Online learning platforms Kiva Participatory Budgets Facial recognition North Karelia Health Kaboom Twitter Web chat MySpace Skype Mothers to Mothers Tyze Lonely Planet Magazines sold by the homeless Cooperatives

10. SIX observations on social innovation Its not easy It doesn’t have to be new, just better – combination and synthesis are key Everyone is doing it It is does not sit in one sector We cant do it alone – Co, co, co The how is important

11. The ‘how’ it works is important "nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.“ President Clinton

12. Building capacity - but what kind? Tools including: Prototyping – storyboarding, role playing Social business modeling Ideation Capabilities including: Influencing/Mobilising Curation/bricolage Analysis / synthesis Impact /Theory of change Mindsets including: Accepting and learning from failure Managing risk Thinking differently

13. Capacity across all sectors of society Those who are doing it Young people Innovators themselves Communities Cities and local administrations Those trying to understand it Researchers/academics Measurers/evaluators Those who are supporting and incentivizing it Funders Infrastructures – incubators etc Governments

14. More institutions ( inside and outside of government) to support it

15. More tools and techniques to help people do it

16. Thinking differently isn’t easy -We need to create new ways to measure what is working and what is not -We need quicker cycles of learning and feedback -We need new approaches to risk -We need different legal structures, insurance schemes, policies.. -We need to be more honest about what doesn’t work -We need to share our learning more effectively -We need to move from being individuals to being a collective

17. Why does SIX exist?

22. Thank you Stay in touch! Louise@socialinnovationexchange.org