Social Innovation Quotes

The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems.

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

Our Government understands that local, community organizations are essential in addressing social issues like economic development, poverty, education and integration in Canadian communities. The Community and College Social Innovation Fund will connect the innovative talent of researchers and students at colleges and polytechnics to meet the research needs of local community organizations to build stronger, safer, healthier communities.

Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.

All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, ‘Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea, It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.