5 Young at heart

In my opinion, the Young Foundation are the UK’s leading analysts of innovation and the role of the third sector. They have recently produced a report “In and out of sync: growing social innovations” which seeks to explain why certain social innovations grow and why others don’t. For example, why did the Big Issue newspaper flourish in the UK but flop in California? The report has a strong analytical structure and is enlivened by a series of attention-grabbing case studies
http://www.youngfoundation.org.uk/files/images/In_and_Out_of_Sync_Final.pdf
The report identifies four conditions that are essential for developing innovative products, services and models on a large scale and in a sustainable way:
demand for the innovation within society;
good supply of ideas in workable forms;
effective strategies to connect supply and demand, and to find the right organisational forms for putting the innovation into practice;
ongoing learning and the ability to adapt to changes in the external environment.
I believe this is what we have been doing at The Brightside Trust, but I'm not sure that we have been doing it in an overt and systematic fashion, perhaps we should.