State Power And Social Innovation
Friday, March 27, 2009
Session Description
For many social entrepreneurs governments are a crucial source of income, but also a barrier to action because of their perceived inability to innovate and change. Yet most academics, commentators, and social activists recognise that genuine systemic global change requires institutional and political entrepreneurship. This panel will explore examples of state social entrepreneurship and will consider the question: to what extent is government the best solution or the biggest problem to addressing the big, ‘wicked’ dilemmas that we face today?
Time & Location
Time:
10:45 - 12:15, Friday, March 27, 2009
BST
Speakers
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Research Fellow / Professor Emeritus, Saïd Business School / Aston University
Ray Loveridge Research Fellow at Saïd Business School, Professor Emeritus, Aston University, Visiting Professor at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, previously lectured at the London School of Economics, at London Business School and Head of Strategic Management and Technology Policy at Aston…
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Director, Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham
Pete Alcock is Professor of Social Policy and Administration at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has been teaching and researching in social policy for over thirty years. He is author and editor of a number of books on social policy including Social Policy in Britain 3e, Understanding Poverty 3e, The…
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Professor, New York University
Paul C. Light is Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service. Before joining NYU, he was Vice President and Director of Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution, and Founding Director of its Center for Public Service. He has published…
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Project Advisor, BMA Medical Fair and Ethical Trade Group
Mahmood Bhutta is an ENT surgeon working in the UK National Health Service, and a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. In 2007, he was a Co-Founder of the Medical Fair and Ethical Trade Group at the British Medical Association. The purpose of this group is to investigate, promote and…
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Alex Nicholls is the first tenured professor in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford.
He is also a Tutorial Fellow and Member of the Governing Body at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. In 2004, he was the co-founder of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship…
