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Sources

Research Before Takeoff

How can innovation address social needs?

  • “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it” What does ‘Innovation’ really mean? by Brianna Sylver, BusinessWeek, Jauary 31st, 2006

How can innovation address social needs?

  • “Permanently alter the perceptions, behaviours and structures that previously gave rise to these challenges” and “An idea that works for the public good”, Center for Social Innovation

On route to your destination

  • “People become aware of their culture when they stand at its boundaries; when they encounter other cultures, or when they become aware of other ways of doing things”, Anthony P. Cohen, Eriksen, 1997, bls. 216

The Map

The challenges of SI across sectors (textbox)

  • The book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, 2002, discusses how to “create production techniques that are not just efficient but are essentially waste free” (Wikipedia)

Change?

  • What Does China Think by Mark Leonard, February 2008, pages 34-36, 54 and 68-71

The Landscape

Corporate Social Responsibility

  • “A concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis” EU’s definition from the Commission Green Paper 2001 “Promoting a European Framework for Corporate Social Responsibility”, COM(2001)366 Final
  • “The business of business is business” Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize winner in Economy, 1976
  • “now representing more that half of the worlds biggest financial powers“ - Fortune, July 31, 2000 and World Bank, World Development Report 2000
  • The three levels of CSR are explained in the special report Corporate Social Responsibility - Just good business, the Economist, January 17th, 2008

From Financial Reporting to Sustainability Reporting (textbox)

  • New Wine, New Bottles: The Rise of Non-Financial Reporting by Allen L. White, June 20th, 2005

Corporate Social Innovation

  • De Nye Pionerer by Tania Ellis, Denmark, 2006

Public Innovation

  • The Centre for Public Innovation (www.publicinnovation.org.uk)

Hip Hop and the Danish Ministry of Taxation

  • MindLab workshop on public sector innovation, June 28th to 29th, 2007. MindLab is a section of the Danish Ministry of Taxation that researches within user-driven innovation. It was originally created in 2002 as an incubator for innovation under the Finance Ministry (http://mind-lab.dk)

Domini – Social Investments (textbox)

Social Purpose Ventures

Is it the why or the what that matters? (textbox)

  • “Sometimes, it falls upon a generation to be great” CHANGE Magazine no. 2, produced by myC4 (http://myc4.com)
  • “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” & “Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?” Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller, USA (1895-1983)
  • From a lecture at the American Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai, March 2008 by Bradley Googins, professor at the Center of Corporate Citizenship, Boston College
  • The survey by McKinsey as well as the report by the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy are quoted in Corporate Social Responsibility - Just good business, the Economist, January 17th, 2008

Springboard Innovation (textbox)

Social Intrapreneurship

  • The Social Intrapreneurs: A Field Guide for Corporate Changemakers, London, UK, April 17th, 2008. Published in partnership with The Skoll Foundation, Allianz and IDEO
  • “The greatest agents for sustainable change are unlikely to be [social entrepreneurs], interesting thought they are… They are much more likely to be the entirely reasonable people, often working for large companies, who see ways to create better products or reach new markets, and have the resources to do so.” From the article Unreasonable People Power, the Economist, January 22nd, 2008

The Specialists

Famous Travellers

  • Wikipedia has been used to find background information on all the case stories in this chapter

Muhammad Yunus

  • Interview with Muhammad Yunus by Charlie Rose, June 5th, 2004 (http://www.charlierose.com)
  • Quotes from The New Heroes (2005), a production of Oregon Public Broadcasting and Malone-Grove Productions Inc

Dave Eggers

  • "The schools need you. The teachers need you. The students and parents need you. They need your actual person, your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time. Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are, how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them one human interaction at a time. So we hope you'll join us." from Dave Eggers’ TEDPrize Talk, February 2008
  • "Many writers, having written a first best-seller, might see it as a nice way to start a career. He started a movement instead" and “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” Dave Eggers: A Literary Rebel, With Causes by James Poniewozik, Time Magazine, April 18th, 2005
  • Dave Eggers Gets Real by Lev Grossman, Time Magazine, October 14th, 2002
  • For more reading see http://www.onceuponaschool.org and http://www.826valencia.org

Marie So and Carol Chyau

Jimmy Wales

  • Wikipedia - personal life & education, personal philosophy & references by Chris Anderson, April 30th, 2006

Natalie Killassy

Movement

Social Innovation in Action

  • Scott Adams The Dilbert Principle American cartoonist (1957 – )

Starting With Me

  • Bruce Fairchild Barton, American writer, advertising executive, and politician. (August 5th 1886 – July 5th 1967)

Bon Voyage

  • Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, (March 1931 – )
  • Deborah Goldblatt, Christer Lidzélius and Tania Ellis all contributed with these quotes in answer to a request made during the production of this book.