Supporting social innovation Social innovation for

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Supporting social innovation Social innovation for a better world in our time Fondazione Mondo Digitale Rome, October 2009 DAVID ALBURY Co-Chair, The Innovation Unit davidalbury@btinternet.com Why social innovation? Supporting social innovators Creating the conditions for social innovation A perfect storm … davidalbury@btinternet.com … in education davidalbury@btinternet.com … and in health davidalbury@btinternet.com Not just incremental improvement Exhaustion of traditional public services Limitations of ‘top-down’, ‘command-and-control’ Need not just ‘best practice’, but ‘next practice’ Radical innovation: but where from? davidalbury@btinternet.com Sources of radical innovation Rarely from inside current system too vested and invested in existing processes and practices, existing mindsets and methods Sometimes from edge and margins … … but more frequently from social innovators and social entrepreneurs: start-ups davidalbury@btinternet.com davidalbury@btinternet.com Supporting social innovators Why social innovation Creating the conditions for social innovation Three diamond innovation support davidalbury@btinternet.com STIMULATING INCUBATING ACCELERATING Stimulating social innovation davidalbury@btinternet.com Analyse need and identify real problem Scan horizons: other sectors and countries Seek innovators, engage ‘users’ Generate creative options STIMULATING Ideas for ‘next practice’ field trials, potential radical innovations Incubating social innovation davidalbury@btinternet.com INCUBATING Prototype, test and trial Model and simulate Manage and lead change Develop business case, secure finance Models of ‘next practice’, of radical innovation, in action Accelerating social innovation davidalbury@btinternet.com Cultivate communities of practice Social networking and viral marketing Synthesise evaluation and research Enrol national agencies ACCELERATING Two examples davidalbury@btinternet.com Communities of learning Excluded young people with schools and groups of schools, communities and the Training and Development Agency with third sector organisations, commissioners of services and social investors Technology and social innovation davidalbury@btinternet.com Technology as driver of social innovation eg need for new skills, new learning Technology as enabler of social innovation eg more informed and expert patients Technology as connector of social innovators eg networks and exchanges davidalbury@btinternet.com Creating the conditions for social innovation Why social innovation? Supporting social innovators Lessons for policy-makers Creating the conditions davidalbury@btinternet.com Passionate about outcomes: ambitious, clear and simple goals and aspirations …. …. and relaxed about how to achieve them Focuses majority of innovation effort on small number of challenges and priorities Encourages and celebrates disciplined innovation and experimentation, informed and managed risk-taking Externally oriented: towards users, frontline staff, other sectors, other countries davidalbury@btinternet.com CULTURE and LEADERSHIP Investment funds and venture capital to create possibilities, incubate promising ideas, support start-ups Support is not just finance, but wrapping round innovators necessary skills and expertise for disciplined innovation