12. Apr. 2010

Social innovation: Mobilising resources and people was the title of a workshop in Brussels (25.-26. March, 2010). Invited by DG Enterprise and the EU project INNO GRIPS (Global Review of Innovation Intelligence and Policy Studies) were organisations engaged with social innovations(from science, businesses, foundations on to OECD), and European Commission establishments: Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA, working on behalf of EC President Barroso), DG Enterprise and Industry, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, DG Research, DG Regional Policy, DG Agriculture and Rural Development, DG Information Society, European Investment Bank.

Increasingly relevance and necessities of social innovations seem acknowledged.
Moreover,
* possibilities of targeted funding, and
* concepts and methods to define and measure the diffusion and impact of social innovations are being considered.

More information:
http://grips-public.mediactive.fr/workshops/