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Openlab creates opportunities to make Stockholm a global centre for social innovation and improve the quality of life for its residents.
Through the Develop Your City initiative we are inviting you to share your ideas and to help find ways for the city to meet new challenges and benefit from new opportunities. Visit their website: http://openlabsthlm.se/
TSIF offers a work experience program for young talents. For more information mail us!
GRONINGER FORUM AS A SPACE FOR INNOVATION
A local manifest for a unique space in the (to be realised) Groninger Forum building: The Cities' Innovation Work Room. This initiative of The Social Innovation Foundation already gains a lot of support. A worthy use of space in this Forum building; catalysing collective creative and innovative power in the challenge to tackle wicked problems. Link to the blog and manifest. Contact: Peter Everts.
The Starfish tool and workshop sessions are offered in the Netherlands through a collaboration between Lead To Change and The Social Innovation Foundation. For more information, please contact Tony van Acquoy. See the Star Fish brochure here
About our partner Lead To Change:
Lead To Change is a consulting firm specialised in innovation and business strategy with a track record of more than 10 years. It is led by Xavier Marcet and Joan Cortes, renowned Spanish specialists in developing business models, strategic growth and open innovation management. Over the years, LTC has led companies, universities and public organizations in their challenge to manage innovation. Based in Barcelona, we are present in Santiago de Chile and Boston. Our consulting style is based on direct and personal involvement. We draw on our experience, have built a large network of contacts and partnerships and work with a proven set of tools and methodologies. Processes are necessary, but people are at the center of innovation.
Social innovation knows many insights and tools for renewal. In an energetic one-day program, many aspects of social innovation will be addressed. We’ll review social innovation in a historical perspective of systemic changes, identify trends, relate it to societal and organizational issues and offer you ground-breaking ways to apply it. With program items like: Dealing with ‘bottom-up’ processes • New leadership • Incremental versus systemic innovation • Connecting the ‘old’ with the ‘new’ • Creating conditions for innovation • Organizing space for innovation • And utilization of present creativity. In summary; get acquainted with social innovation and discover what it can do for you, your organization and your network. Feel free to contact us or ask for the NL or the EN digital flyer.
Do we use a narrow or wide (European) definition of social innovation in the Netherlands? Involves innovation in the context of the work organization or new solutions and concepts for complex and social challenges? This question has been commitment of many discussions. Now there seems to be moving at the front with an opinion on social innovation in the making, it seems as though the Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy (AWT) is proposed to also follow the European interpretation of the concept in the Netherlands. TSIF was a member of the AWT expert meeting.
