Our societies are increasingly confronted with so-called ‘wicked problems’. Challenges such as climate change, mobility, solitude and poverty are complex and multidimensional. It seems they cannot be solved by the existing approaches or by the traditional actors only. To tackle these wicked problems, we need to think differently and experiment with new solutions.
The Social Innovation Factory supports the movement of exploring a broad range of solutions for societal challenges. From the onset it focused on both social innovation and social entrepreneurship. The Social Innovation Factory welcomes people working on any relevant societal issue such as sustainability, green energy, healthy food, poverty alleviation, well-being, education, ageing or a combination of different issues. It strongly believes in the power of cross-fertilisation between civil society organisations, enterprises, government actors and academia.