09 julho 2008

Inovação social

ten thesis on Social Innovation:
1. The world has a deficit of social innovation. [...]
2. There is a widening gulf between business and society. [...]
3. There is no shortage of creativity. [...]
4. However, something is missing [...]
5. Many fields can contribute methods and insights to social innovation. [...]
6. We need better ways to design, incubate and supply new ideas and models – feed by crisis, curiosity, combination. [...]
7. Large scale impact depends on better ways to spread innovations and mobilize demand, using capital, commissioning and collaboration.
8. Demand and supply need to be linked by intermediaries. [...]
9. Every city, every region, every country should cultivate its own capacity to innovate solutions its own social problems.
10. We need to bring all these elements together so that social growth to match economic growth.