Global updates
Mapping social innovation
1 September 2009
Alliance magazine
People turning backyards into organic farms; architects transforming waste materials into new homes; government innovation funds supporting novel ways of managing chronic disease; communities buying wind farms or football clubs; citizens forming ‘complaints choirs’ to protest through song. These are just a few examples of social innovation. As a field, social innovation is lively and remarkably fertile but poorly understood in comparison to business and technological innovation. A new mapping project aims to change this.
