{"id":50606,"date":"2024-08-28T08:40:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T07:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=50606"},"modified":"2024-09-13T13:45:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T12:45:46","slug":"ubc-social-innovation-hub-co-creating-a-better-world-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/ubc-social-innovation-hub-co-creating-a-better-world-for-all\/50606\/","title":{"rendered":"UBC Social Innovation Hub: Co-creating a better world for all"},"content":{"rendered":"
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted various facets of life in Canada and globally, affecting individual relationships, institutional operations, and international supply chains and collaborations. It has exposed the interconnectedness and vulnerability of complex systems. In response to the challenges of the post-pandemic world, social innovation, social entrepreneurship, social enterprise, social financing, and social business are increasingly recognised as innovative solutions and mechanisms.<\/p>\n
The UBC Social Innovation Hub emphasises the multi-stakeholder model, aiming to design and nurture high-impact social innovations, social enterprises, and social businesses. It is also committed to educating the next generation of social innovators and entrepreneurs while fostering long-term collaborations with key partners and communities both locally and globally.<\/p>\n
The Social Innovation Hub focuses on three main pillars:<\/p>\n
The Hub facilitates a diverse range of research projects and partnerships and establish an international social innovation research network to connect Canadian scholars with global collaborators and partners.<\/p>\n
The Hub co-ordinates courses, work-integrated learning (WIL) programmes, and other experiential learning activities to engage educators, learners, and community partners at all levels, promoting a deeper understanding of social innovation.<\/p>\n
The Hub collaborates with key partners to develop a \u2018humanitarian-centric\u2019 social innovation incubator. This new programme also supports the development of social businesses, social enterprises, Indigenous social ventures, and other socially-driven enterprises.<\/p>\n
Community-university engagement is at the core of the Hub\u2019s approach to innovation. By fostering engagement between academia and the broader community, the Hub aims to enhance collaboration, co-creation, knowledge sharing, and expertise.<\/p>\n
Another guiding principle for the Hub\u2019s innovation strategy is inclusivity. By involving stakeholders from multiple sectors and disciplines, the Hub ensures a collaborative, inclusive, sustainable, and participatory approach to solving today\u2019s complex problems. The socio-economic dynamics of current challenges are intricate, necessitating collaboration among the public sector, private sector, academia, industry leaders, community leaders, ecosystem enablers, innovators, and entrepreneurs. The Hub serves as a key integrator, connecting relevant stakeholders across various sectors and disciplines.<\/p>\n
Current themes of the Hub\u2019s work include:<\/p>\n