Building a Social Innovation Commons

Date: December 9, 2009

Concept description of a Social Innovation Commons.

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In the pdf we describe a new concept for a Social Innovation Commons that takes on the problem of a lack of high-quality information about social innovations. Read our rationale, concept, and strategy for moving forward--and tell us what you think.

The Concept. We seek to design and build a way for social innovators to get through the maze—an online “Social Innovation Commons” that attracts, categorizes, rates, and makes accessible a vast amount of information about specific social innovations. The Commons will function as a market in which social innovators and investors exchange—provide and consume—social innovation information with each other and develop other ways to generate value and collaborate. The Commons will be designed to establish this market’s purpose, essential infrastructure, rules and standards, business/enterprise model, and market development strategy.