Institute for Solidarity and Social Enterprises:

Launching Social Innovation Accelerators

2. Case Study: Accelerators

Legal & banking
Geeks & creatives
Mentors
Academics
Tech firms
Entrepreneurs & SMEs
Change agents
& facilitators

Investors & VCs

Angels
Public sector

A local social innovation system

The six types of accelerators

-incubators
-venture development
organizations (VDOs)
-university accelerators
-proof-of-concept centers
(POCCs)
-corporate accelerators
and
-innovation accelerators

Internet case

Building and Sustaining the Innovation Ecosystem

-Public-Private Innovation Partnership (cite

Accelerators)
-CitizenSourcing e.g., open calls
-Create innovation networks
-Develop skunkworks
-Create innofusion uptake of new
technologies requires mutual adaptation of
technology and the adopting organization.
-To identify innovation capabilities of suppliers
and interact with them for innovation
-Design and adopt collaboration approaches
for concurrent innovation processes at both
user and producer organisations
-Better deployment of methods for public
procurement of innovation

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