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À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Institute for Social Innovation (WISIR)ÌýPaper Series

A compilation of the work ofÌý Social Innovation Generation at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ (SiG@À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ) project that led to the establishment of WISIR, the abstracts provided present the implications of WISIR'sÌýresearch for practitioners - especially for foundations driven to catalyze social innovation.Ìý

See the categories below for theÌýabstracts and articles of the WISIR paper series

1. Economics - the role of funding and markets in social innovation
2. The Environment and social innovation - what can we learn from resilience theory
3. Agency - the role of individuals in social innovation
4. Policy and governance - the role of government in social innovation
5. Scale - how social innovations grow to create systems change
6. Power and Partnerships
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Recent Conference Papers

November 14-15, 2013: WISIR researchers presented the following papers at theÌýNational Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (Nesta) conference:

• Westley, F. and K. McGowan. 2013. . ÌýThis paper introduces a new theory surrounding the process of social innovation using historical case studies.
• Westley, F. and N. Antadze. 2013. . ÌýWe investigate how successful social entrepreneurs face the challenge of scaling up their social innovation.
• Tjornbo, O. 2013. . There have been many optimistic predictions about the potential of crowds to solve social problems. But are these tools valuable to the production of social innovation?Ìý

Webinars

November 19, 2013. Delivered by Cheryl Rose, associate director, WISIR.