Cambridge Judge Business School: Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation

Radical cultural entrepreneurship

How do social enterprises emerge in ‘extreme’ situations? Research from Cambridge Judge and Naples University examines how a social cooperative launched in a mafia-riddled town in southern Italy.
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Social entrepreneurship after the Arab Spring

Youth activism has translated into a growing social entrepreneurship sector in Egypt. This blog explores how young social entrepreneurs are making a difference.
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Social innovation sparks creativity

This blog post explores compelling evidence which suggests solving social challenges in a business context holds unique power to spark creativity, with knock-on effects for business performance.
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Sustaining social and business objectives simultaneously

Balancing social mission and business objectives is a common challenge for social enterprises but leadership can help by building guardrails and adopting paradoxical frames.
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Entrepreneurship for development

Economic development in rural areas may be key to break the poverty cycle in Africa. The Centre for Social Innovation studies the lessons that can be learned from an innovative but contentious macro-credit model introduced in Tanzania.
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The Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, acts as a platform for research and engagement with social innovators, academia and policy in UK and across the world. Its primary focus is to understand, promote, and engage with social innovators and create and support social ventures and projects.