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This is a short presentation by Geoff Mulgan, economist Robin Murray and Julie Caulier-Grice from The Young Foundation for the Social Innovation Exchange' Festival of Ideas in Lisbon this year.
A great talk with Geoff Mulgan from the Young Foundation where he explores the effects of the economic crisis in the development of new future political, culturan and economic models post-crash. Mulgan makes a call to re-think the credit crunch as an opportunity to reflect on the changes that need to be done and start investing in social innovation to prepare ourselves for the changes ahead in the capitalist society.
We are in a moment of choice where we have to decide whether we want to invest and make the effort of getting back to where we were before the crisis; or whether this is a moment to jump ahead, reboot and start doing some of the things that we probably should have been doing anyway.
Geoff Mulgan
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This extract of the Young Foundation's summary posits a very interesting approach to social innovation. In a very interesting way Mulgan links the innovation cycle to Schopenhauer's 3 stages model (ridiculed/opposed/self-evident). However in this case it seems to have started backwards. From the beginning the concept of social innovation has become self-evident and the supposed opposition has only generated attention and genuine interest across many different industries. This has yielded to stimulating collaborations and engaging projects between the bees (individuals) and the trees (organisations). via dontstop01.com
More on the Young Foundation's postulate here.
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