Ponencia impartida por Gemma Rocyn Jones, directora de programa de la Young Foundation, el 4 de julio de 2013 en la II European Summer School of Social Innovation
4. 1Feb1954
Sept1969
Michael Young’s
vision for the first
University in the air
opens with the aim
of widening access
to higher education
Oct1957
Michael created the
Consumers’
Association, the
precursor to
Which? To help
consumers tackle
the issues that
matter to them
April1990
Initially covering just four languages, Language
Line was first set up to enable communication
between patients and staff at the Royal London
Hospital in East London. The local police on
the Isle of Dogs then requested 24 hours a day
coverage in 16 languages.
Language Line Services’ Telephone
Interpreting and Translation Services grew
rapidly throughout the 1990s, and the company
is now part of the largest Interpreting company
worldwide providing 170 languages.
1997
27June1977
Michael Young
creates the Mutual
Aid Centre to
assist citizens in
taking
control over their
lives
Named after Michael Young and formed
through the merger of his two organisations,
The Institute for Community Studies and
Mutual Aid Centre.
Michael Young left a remarkable legacy of
ideas and institutions which had an enormous
impact on the day-to-day lives of the millions of
people who use them and on how we think
about our society.
Over the next fifty years the Young Foundation,
as a centre for social innovation and
entrepreneurship, hopes to have an equally
profound impact.
April2005
Founded by
Michael Young
vehicle for social
research and action
and enterprise.
Through which he
created over 60
organisations and
published hundreds of
reports and books on
social justice, equality,
and policy.
Family and
kinship in East
London. First
published in 1957,
this vivid and
touching picture of
family life in the
East End of the
1950s is one of the
great pioneering
works of modern
sociology.
OUR HISTORY
10. THERE ARE MAJOR CHALLENGES
AHEAD
• Recession and unemployment
• Climate change
• Ageing and isolation
• Chronic disease and disability
• Poverty and exclusion
• Disengaged young people
• Diversity and conflict
12. • Bureaucracies averse to risk
• Innovation can be disruptive,
change power relations
• Often lack of skills, capital,
dedicated processes
• Older models become efficient,
mutually adapted, embedded in
mindsets
PUBLIC SECTOR CAN INNOVATE BUT
FINDS IT HARD
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Social innovations =
“new solutions (products, services, models,
markets, processes etc.) that simultaneously
meet a social need (more efficiently and
effectively than existing solutions) and lead to
new or improved capabilities, assets and/or
relationships.”
OUR WORKING DEFINITION
15. Core elements:
should be present
SOCIAL
INNOVATION
1) meets a
social need
3) from idea to
implementation
2) novelty5) effective
4) enhance society’s
capacity to act
Common features
that are often
present
CORE ELEMENTS & COMMON
FEATURES
19. 1. prompts and triggers
diagnosisethnography
political mandates
critical walking
failure demand
data and evidence
cost escalation
petitions, campaigns
complaints choirs
new technology
user feedback
reviewing extremes, positive deviance
surveys and sousveys
needs mapping
new paradigms
visits
crisis
rights to time for ideas
25. 2. proposals and ideas
inspiration Idea marketplaces
hybridisation
Design tools
Ideas banks
collaborative networks
User led design
A teams
brainstorms
creative meeting
methods
competitions
Artists in residence Creativity methods
incubation
Living Labs
reflection
crowdsourcing
SI Camps
Skunkworks
Staged prizes
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REASONS FOR CAUTION…
• Getting people to participate is only valuable if it leads to other good
things – participation in not an end in itself
• The benefits of participatory activities depend on how they are run.
There are lots of risks:
• Processes can be co-opted by certain groups to push their own
agendas
• Who will participate? Do participants only represent the well
educated and affluent?
• If practiced poorly, participation activities can lead to
disengagement and cynicism
31. 3. prototypes and tests
trials beta testing
proof of concept
Randomised control trials
pathfinders
rapid prototyping
trailblazers
simulations
pilots
experimental zones
test marketing
open testing
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5
10
15
20
25
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Board/Trustees (if app)
CEO/Team/Networks - is
the leadership in place
Operating (admin)
Systems
Community of Benefit - is
there social impact?
Information and impact
assessment
Outcomes focus - does
this build knowlegde for
YF?
Networks - Are YF best to
help? - is it clear where
we can help?
Infrastructure
Products
Value for Money /
investability
Business Plan/ Finances
Partnerships
Support Assessment: Project
Initial Assessment
Assessing sustainability
ORGANISATIONAL HEALTH SCORECARD
41. 5. scaling and growth
diffusion
Strategies for diffusion and adoption
licensing
Brands
franchises
investment for growth – loans, equity, quasi-equity
commissioning
federations
National policy directives
professional networks
growth through people takeover
policy and programme funding
consumer advocacy
42. • Demand pull, or
push through law
and programmes
Examples
• NHS Direct, Open
University
• Vodafone M-Pesa
banking service by
phone in east Africa
with 7m customers
• Alcoholics
Anonymous
Push and pull in sync
SCALING AND GROWTH
43. 6. systemic change
new mentalities
regulation
recalibrated markets
coalitions for change
changed scripts whole system demonstrators
law
technical diffusion through supply
chains fast colleges
finance for
outcomes
changed power relationships
new metrics
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Provider
Social Enterprise
Civil Society Consortium
NHS Body
Funder
Foundation Trust
Charitable Foundation
Commercial Investor
Public Sector
Commissioners
Central GovernmentShare of Savings
Social
Impact
Bond
From problem to scale
SOCIAL IMPACT BONDS
51. …BUT HOW??
Start small – persuade by
example
Don’t wait for permission or
funding or acceptance by big
institutions just do it
Always taking ‘no’ as a
question
52. SUGGESTED RESOURCES
• The Open Book of Social Innovation, The Young Foundation
http://youngfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/The-Open-Book-of-Social-
Innovationg.pdf
• The Social Design Methods Menu, Lucy Kimbell and Joe Julier
http://www.lucykimbell.com/stuff/Fieldstudio_SocialDesignMethodsMenu.pdf
• In and out of sync: the challenges of growing social innovations, The Young Foundation
http://youngfoundation.org/publications/in-and-out-of-sync-the-challenge-of-growing-social-
innovations/
• Growing Social Ventures, the Young Foundation www.growingsocialventures.org
• Tepsie – Growing social innovation http://www.tepsie.eu/
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