Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation

Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation – final conference

Time: 09:00, 26 Jan 2018 Add to Calendar
Location:
Lecture Theatre VI
Address:
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HP
Speakers/Lecturers:
Speakers will cover a range of social innovation issues, including impact measurement, finance, social policy, theory-building.
Admission: Registration required Book now
For any enquiries:
Email organiser
Sponsor:
European Commission, FP 7
The event will bring together academics, practitioners and policymakers from a wide range of disciplines to focus on how interventions drawing on social innovation can address major economic, social and power imbalances and inequalities.

Speakers will cover a range of social innovation issues, including impact measurement, finance, social policy, theory-building, all with a focus on enhancing the lives of the most marginalised and disempowered citizens through social innovation.

The event will also include a keynote by economic sociologist Jens Beckert (Director of the Max Plank Institute for the Studies of Society – MPIfG), whose work has provided one of the main inspirations of the CrESSI-project -, Frank Moulaert (Professor of Spatial Planning, Head of the Planning and Development Unit ASRO, Faculty of Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium) and Jürgen Howaldt (Director Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund Central scientific unit – University of Dortmund).