Met for a coffee yesterday evening with John Craig, Director of the Innovation Exchange, the government-funded initiative to promote innovation in the third sector (particularly where it meets public services; see here for more). There’s the potential for some SSE Fellows to be brought into the process and conversations that John will be enabling, particularly at some ‘open space’ events coming up soon. I’ll also be blogging a bit for the InnovEx, hence the title of the post (if being at SSE has taught me something, it’s there’s no such thing as a free chocolate brownie). More news to follow in future posts.

As has been pointed out before, just when you were waiting for one innovation exchange to arrive, along comes another one. In this case, the Social Innovation Exchange (or SIX) which is driven by the Young Foundation and a group of core partners (including SSE). More fluid in remit, currently, it intends to draw together resources, build networks and collate case studies from across the globe. Differing, therefore, from its govt.-funded namesake by its global reach, and a much broader focus. SIX is taking a direct feed from this blog, featuring SSE case studies, and we look forward to collaborating with our global partners on a number of future initiatives. Congratulations to Sara for getting it all built and designed….