Let’s turn wicked problems into good news...Where is society’s R&D department? If it’s anywhere, it’s in the third sector.

Many of our greatest institutions grew from the ingenuity of social entrepreneurs.

What about today’s social challenges? The third sector stillteems with innovative solutions, but innovation can be hard.Innovators often don’t have the ears and email addresses of thosewith money and influence. Commissioners and investors lack thetime and energy to search them out.

The Innovation Exchange wants to help change that, growingthird sector innovation by bringing innovators and investorstogether. It will work as an independent intermediary, brokeringcollaborative innovation and providing the space, tools andresources to make it successful.

The Exchange’s first two areas of focus are excluded youngpeople and independent living. It could help you to develop aninnovative project and to find the expertise to improve and evaluateit. It could help you to find the new contacts and resources to helpto strengthen and grow your work.

The Innovation Exchange is now beginning a programme ofevents, research and online exchange to find the most excitinginnovators in the third sector. Go online at www.innovation-exchange.org and join in the conversation about our future plans.Shape our research and be at the front of the queue for access toour events and to the £200k NESTA Innovation Exchange Fund.

Don’t give away your idea, but don’t keep it to yourself. Help ittake off with the Innovation Exchange.

To join the network and to read about upcoming eventsvisit www.innovation-exchange.orgor call Raj Cheema on 0207 259 1368

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