Developing new social innovations

Improving social innovation

Description

Developing new social innovations involves designing and implementing novel solutions to address unmet social needs and systemic challenges. This strategy focuses on creating practical, scalable approaches—such as new services, models, or partnerships—that improve social outcomes, empower communities, and remedy persistent problems like inequality, exclusion, or inefficiency. The essential action is to identify gaps, prototype interventions, and facilitate their adoption, thereby transforming existing structures and delivering measurable, sustainable benefits to society.

Implementation

The Institute for Social Inventions, London helps to implement some of the best projects it recognizes in competitions, acting as a consultancy to voluntary groups and others. It tries to launch four major projects a year. Projects started include the Natural Death Centre, The Befriending Network, Apprentice Master Alliance, the Council for Posterity, the Hippocratic Oath for Scientists and the East Europe Constitution Design Forum.