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Venture philanthropy
Venture philanthropy uses many of the tools of venture funding to promote start...

Social franchising
Social franchising is one approach to growing an organisation.

Growing self-organising social movements
Fast growing grassroots movement such as Camp for Climate Action is able to...

Walking
Walking makes problems visible and at the same time prompts ideas. In the words...

Safe spaces for innovation
This virtual 27th ‘region’ of France is intended to provide the...

Complaints Choirs
Complaints Choirs - where people come together, list their grievances, set them...

 

Tracking public finances
Tracking public finances may be aided by public balance sheet accounting and...

Innovation hubs
Innovation hubs are shared work spaces which are specifically designed to...

 

Re-thinking space
Many of society’s materials, spaces and buildings are unused, discarded...

Personalised budgets
Personalised budgets involve users being allocated a budget to be used for...

 

Re-designing services with users and producers
Re-designing services with users and producers such as the work undertaken by...

Competitions and challenges
Competitions and challenges can be an effective means of uncovering new sources...

Crowdfunding
 Ebbsfleet United is a football team that was purchased through...

Local trading currencies
Shopping with the Brixton Pound, the UK's first local currency which support...

Proof of concept testing
Proof of concept testing occurs before the prototyping stage.

Extending the home
Lunchtime at San Patrignano, Italy, which is one of the largest drug...
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