Objective Companies that don’t innovate lose their competitive edge. This is one certainty companies in an increasingly competitive, complex environment face, and which is further driven home by the 2005 re-launch of the Lisbon Strategy. But how should a Philips, IMEC or say a leading company in high-tech or knowledge-based services innovate their service function? This project will bring forward emerging social entrepreneurs as a powerful, yet so far untapped source of ‘external’ intelligence, ideas and technologies, and will advance a concrete strategy for how companies can access and leverage this intelligence in their service innovation processes. To do so, we will first rigorously analyse the founding decisions of 800 emerging social entrepreneurs based in Western as well as Central and Eastern European countries. This will allow us to systematically dissect the rising phenomenon of social entrepreneurship along a number of dimensions, including financial contracting, competitive strategy and organizational design. As we better understand who social entrepreneurs in Europe are and how they evolve over time, we can start to address more effectively how their intelligence can be optimally mobilized to accelerate service innovation. We will pilot-test at least one concrete, new innovation strategy (match-making model) through a series of action-orientated workshops that will involve academics, social entrepreneurs and leading companies. Finally, through our unique blend of fundamental and applied research, we will be able to formulate public policy initiatives in the following four domains: (i) the area of emerging social entrepreneurship both at the EU and member state levels, (ii) that of service innovation and competitiveness particularly at the EU level, (iii) areas of both emerging social entrepreneurship and services innovation in European welfare states versus emerging market economies, and (iv) our “SELUSI”-Innovation Strategy at the global level. Fields of science social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiespublic policiessocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurship Keywords cross-sectoral collaboration emerging social entrepreneurs open business models organizational and competitive strategy service innovation Programme(s) FP7-SSH - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities Topic(s) SSH-2007-1.2-02 - The implications of developments in the service economy for the European economy SSH-2007-1.1-02 - Intangible investments and innovation in Europe Call for proposal FP7-SSH-2007-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE EU contribution € 428 503,00 Address Houghton Street 1 WC2A 2AE London United Kingdom See on map Region London Inner London — West Westminster Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Daniel Fisher (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN Belgium EU contribution € 239 529,00 Address OUDE MARKT 13 3000 Leuven See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. 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Leuven Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Maria Vereeken (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data STIFTELSEN OSTEKONOMISKA INSTITUTET Sweden EU contribution € 315 537,00 Address SVEAVAGEN 65 113 83 STOCKHOLM See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Lasse Persson (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA Spain EU contribution € 162 970,00 Address CAMPUS UNIVERSITARIO EDIFICIO CENTRAL 31080 Pamplona See on map Region Noreste Comunidad Foral de Navarra Navarra Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Christine Ecker (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data The Hub Collective Ltd Participation ended United Kingdom EU contribution € 5 850,00 Address Torrens Street 5 ECIV INQ London See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Jonathan Robinson (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data NESST EUROPE NONPROFIT KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG Hungary EU contribution € 73 047,00 Address BAJCSY ZSILINSZKY UTCA 58 1 EM 6 1054 BUDAPEST See on map Activity type Other Administrative Contact Loic Comolli (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data I-PROPELLER NV Belgium EU contribution € 153 121,00 Address RUE JOSEPH II 20 1000 Bruxelles / Brussel See on map Region Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. 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