A Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation (CRESSI) policy briefing paper based on CRESSI Deliverable 1.1: Report on Institutions, Social Innovation & System Dynamics from the Perspective of the Marginalised

A Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation (CRESSI) policy brief based on CRESSI Deliverable 1.3: Report Contrasting CRESSI’s Approach of Social Innovation with that of Neoclassical Economics

The Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation (CRESSI) project focuses on one over-arching research objective: to develop a novel theoretical framework better to understand the economic underpinnings of marginalization and social innovation in the European Union. Specifically, this project...

Mission driven businesses—here defined as businesses that are managed to produce financial returns alongside intended social or environmental benefits—face many challenges as they grow past the “angel” stage and scale up into fully-fledged corporations. These include all the...