Jon Hugget's slides from our recent Summer School 2012 in Adelaide on the challenges of scaling social innovation and looking ahead to the future of innovation.

1. Social
Social Innovation
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Jon Huggett
Social Innovation eXchange Summer School
Adelaide, 28th November 2012

2. Why Social Social Innovation?
We are here to discuss:
“THE GROWING PAINS OF SOCIAL INNOVATION”
Social Innovation is growing …
… so why is this hard … what are the pains?
What might social innovation be when it grows up?
How can SIX “innovate” Social Innovation?
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3. My reflection from “Social-N” work with …
Social iNNovation
Social eNterprise
Social iNvestment
Social eNtrepreneur
Social eNtrepreneurship
Social iNtrapreneurship
Social respoNsibility
Social iNclusion
Social veNtures
Social fraNchising
Social iNtelligence
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4. Global interest in “Social Innovation”
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5. Ocean of social innovations
Innovation in
Social services
TACSI Family by Family
Sustainable city Curitiba North Karelia Health
Harlem Children’s Zone Hammarby Sjöstad eco-town
Khan Academy Kaboom Wikipedia Mothers to Mothers
Kunskapskolan
Charter schools
Social Social Innovation? Lonely Planet
Facial recognition
Academies Kiva Avaaz Tyze Facebook Twitter
Crowdsourcing Move On Texting Web chat
Radical transparency All Out IM MySpace
CSR to develop BoP products 38 Degrees BBM Skype
Innovation done Tough Mudder Innovation in
Socially Grindr how we Socialize
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6. Each kind of social innovation helps another
“FB membership passes 1 billion”
October 2012
February 2012
Car use down Rail travel up 10% pubs close
among young in UK and USA each year
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7. Large (personal) impact over decades
1M
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8. Huge systemic changes to the state
“Protector”
Relational State
“Provider”
Welfare state
“Partner”
“Partner”
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“Passive”
Big Society
Prey?
“… a radical solution to the problem of
declining public trust in governments:
why don’t governments show greater
trust in the people?”
Source: Government with The People: The Outlines of a Relational State, Geoff Mulgan, 2012
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9. Why is this hard?
Weak
economies
Capital
of scale
without Meritocratic
How to
spread? revenue leadership
Can it Do leaders
pay its own the
way? problem?
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10. Michael Young coined “meritocracy” in 1950s
to compare with plutocracy or aristocracy
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11. Predications of “Rise of the Meritocracy”
went against the grain of its time
Some 1958 predictions … 2012?
Pick for more top jobs by “merit” ✔
Increasing income inequality ✔
Falling social mobility ✔
Marginalization of working people ✔
Decline of working class politics ✔
Party of the left becomes “technocratic” ✔
Party of the right becomes “populist” ✔
House of Lord revived as “meritocratic” ✔
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12. Do we have a crisis of “meritocracy”?
“Meritocracy offered liberation
from the unjust hierarchies of
ra c e , g e n d e r a n d s e x u a l
orientation, but swapped in
their place a new hierarchy
based on the notion that
people are deeply unequal in
ability and drive”
Christopher Hayes, 2012 12

13. Can SIX explore “social” social innovation?
Smart people Good people
doing doing
good things smart things
Meritocratic Democratic
Hierarchical Fluid
Top-down Bottom-up
Interesting Systemic
“Growing pains” “Grown-up”
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