The open book of social innovation

Introduction -- Section 1: The process of social innovation ---- Prompts, inspirations and diagnoses ---- Proposals and ideas ---- Prototyping and pilots ---- Sustaining ---- Scaling and diffusion ---- Systemic change ---- Section 2: Connecting people, ideas and resources ---- Section 3: Ways of supporting social innovation ---- Support in the public sector ---- Support in the grant economy ---- Support in the market economy ---- Support in the informal or household economy ---- Bibliography ---- Index ---- Acknowledgements.--

This book is about the many ways in which people are creating new and more effective answers to the biggest challenges of our times: how to cut our carbon footprint; how to keep people healthy; and how to end poverty. It describes the methods and tools for innovation being used across the world and across different sectors - the public and private sectors, civil society and the household - in the overlapping fields of the social economy, social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. It draws on inputs from hundreds of organisations to document the many methods currently being used around the world.'--Page 4 of cover