Centre for Social Innovation

Social Innovation Dialogues

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SSE Forum

On 9 February 2010, the NZ Centre for Social Innovation convened a forum focused on “Supporting Social Entrepreurs: What Works”, generously hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Approximately 130 participants from the public, private and community sectors gathered to explore the potential to develop a School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) on the highly-successful UK model in NZ. More »

Insights from Mindlab

On 10 December 2009, the Centre for Social Innovation hosted Christian Bason, Director of MindLab (Denmark) for a day of workshops and seminars with over 120 forward-thinking senior public and private sector managers. More »

Innovating through Recession

At a series of workshops and lectures on 6 and 7 April, the Centre invited Geoff Mulgan and a number of other social innovators to lead discussions about how the public, private and community sectors can come together in the name of social innovation.
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Leadership Forums

December 2009

Building on our two previous Leadership Forums this year with Hon Bill English and Charles Leadbeater our December forum, featuring MindLab’s Director Christian Bason, offers a space for public and private sector leaders to come together to think creatively and aspirationally about accelerating innovation in their organisations.
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September 2009

Our September Leadership Forum brought together leading public and private sector chief executives with UK innovation guru Charles Leadbeater to focus on leading for innovation – what can the public sector learn from new private sector thinking?
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February 2009

On 26 February 2009 the Centre for Social Innovation convened a Leadership Forum with the Minister of Finance, the Hon Bill English, and the CEO’s and senior executives of 16 of NZ’s most innovative private and public sector organisations.
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A School for NZ Social Entrepreneurs

Working Group

We’re building a dedicated training and support programme for our social entrepreneurs.

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Australian Centre Launches

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The SA Government-funded Australian Centre for Social Innovation launches with a Social Innovation Challenge, a focus on design-thinking and an emphasis on collaboration to find creative solutions to tough social problems.

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