Cambridge Judge Business School: Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation

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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Social innovation, over time

Community activists tend to seek urgent solutions, but a new study from the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation emphasises how patience is essential for cross-sector development work.
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The Hearts Milk Bank

Cambridge Social Venture, The Hearts Milk Bank, seeks to speed up the process of donating milk, while carrying out vital research into its life-saving properties.
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Reclaiming symbols and spaces

Dr Lilia Giugni, Teaching Associate at Cambridge Judge, unpacks the graduate construction of new meanings by activists and innovators transforming spaces previously owned by an oppressive system.
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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.