Stone Soup 2012 Webinar Series

In 2012, Stone Soup staged a series of webinars focusing on critical areas for increasing social impact of innovative solutions to today’s society greater challenges and most pressing needs: Entrepreneurial learning, Social investment, Impact Assessment, Scaling-up Strategies.

Challenges in Scaling-Up Successful Solutions (7 Nov. 2012)

Entrepreneurs and organisations implementing social, environmental or cultural projects can generate more value if their most successful solutions are scaled up to benefit a larger number of people. But how to scale-up effectively? How to establish the right strategy and create the enabling conditions, ecosystems and resources needed for a sustained expansion? The webinar explored conceptual frameworks and lessons learnt from different examples around the world: from differentiation to growing in an unknown territory. Download the presentation:

Scaling Up Succesful Social Solutions (by Meredith Niles)

Business as mission - Better World Books: A Case Study in Scaling Social Enterprise (by David Murphy)

"The Value of Social Impact Assessment" (19 Sept. 2012)

This webinar spoted on and explored experiences from the field, illustrating the opportunities and overall benefits of flexible tailored-made approaches in terms of increased efficiency, financial stability, and institutional learning and adaptation

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Stone Soup 2012 Webinar Series: The Value of Social Impact Assessment

"Entrepreneurial learning: using observational learning to innovate" (31st May 2012)

This webinar presented results and key findings of the research project winner of Stone Soup Award on Research in Social Innovation, created to support post graduate research initiatives in the field of social innovation.

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Entrepreneurial learning - Using observational learning to innovate