Social Innovation

Open-access Nesta methods report mapping how social innovation is designed, developed, and scaled across sectors.

Freely available from Nesta — we link to the publisher rather than Amazon because open access better serves readers.

This report maps methods and tools for designing, developing, and growing social innovation across the public, private, civil society, and household sectors. Drawing on inputs from hundreds of organisations, it documents how social innovation operates in the overlapping fields of the social economy, social entrepren…

Canonical source in our Research Library — supports Community-led solutions and Scaling place innovations. We cite the publisher/DOI directly; recommendation is independent of any commission.

Social labs as adaptive, prototype-driven responses to complex civic challenges — beyond fixed five-year plans.

Primary reading for our Social Innovation Labs best practice. Matches how we think about iterative coalition work.