The role of mutuals in public service innovation
Lead Research Organisation:
Middlesex University
Department Name: Business School
Abstract
The agenda to increase the involvement of mutual organisations and employee ownership in public service delivery has been of growing policy importance over the past five years but increasingly so for the current Coalition Government, which has raised expectations of the potential of mutuals as organisational vehicles for innovation and improved productivity.
This study aims to provide a rigorous evidence base concerning the role of spin-out mutual (i.e. employee owned) organisational forms in promoting innovation in public services in the UK. It does this by examining the types of innovations involved and their effectiveness as perceived by users and other stakeholders. The study will answer a key question regarding innovation in public sector delivery, focusing on efforts to further develop this agenda by the current Coalition Government.
There is a need for closer examination of the extent to which spin out mutuals are able to unleash entrepreneurialism, creativity and innovation in public service delivery, and to identify what are the crucial facilitating factors and barriers to innovations. There is also a need to assess the perceived impact of initiatives on different stakeholders, recognising that innovation involves risk and may involve unintended negative impacts, as well as gains
This study is therefore aimed at providing a high quality evidence base for policy makers and others. The research will focus on mutual organisational forms in health and social care, comparing recent experience with those of longer established mutuals in leisure services. The findings will contribute new knowledge on the role of employee and user involvement in introducing innovative approaches to meeting service needs and the role of local contexts and external support providers.
The methods will involve:
1. A systematic review of the literature: to build on interdisciplinary understanding and insights from relevant literatures on the public sector, mutualisation and employee-owned organisational forms, and service/social innovation.
2. Mapping of the employee owned-enterprise sector: a systematic analysis of existing data sets on mutuals, co-operatives and other third sector organisations involved in public service delivery. A new data set will be generated from existing databases which will serve to identify the key sectors and sample of organisations for the field research.
3. Interviews with key stakeholders: at national level, including key policy actors, commissioners, trade unions etc in different regions and sectors.
4. Surveys with mutual organisations: 30 mutuals in health and social care and in leisure services will be selected to represent a range of organisational types and activities. For each organisation, interviews will be conducted with senior and other staff members, support providers, users/beneficiaries, commissioners, unions and other key stakeholders.
Knowledge exchange has been embedded in the design of the project through consultation with all stakeholders during its preparation, and the assembly of a research team that combines experienced researchers, policy thinkers and support providers. The research is designed to have a direct impact on practice and policy as well as academic understanding of the processes of innovation public service delivery.
This study aims to provide a rigorous evidence base concerning the role of spin-out mutual (i.e. employee owned) organisational forms in promoting innovation in public services in the UK. It does this by examining the types of innovations involved and their effectiveness as perceived by users and other stakeholders. The study will answer a key question regarding innovation in public sector delivery, focusing on efforts to further develop this agenda by the current Coalition Government.
There is a need for closer examination of the extent to which spin out mutuals are able to unleash entrepreneurialism, creativity and innovation in public service delivery, and to identify what are the crucial facilitating factors and barriers to innovations. There is also a need to assess the perceived impact of initiatives on different stakeholders, recognising that innovation involves risk and may involve unintended negative impacts, as well as gains
This study is therefore aimed at providing a high quality evidence base for policy makers and others. The research will focus on mutual organisational forms in health and social care, comparing recent experience with those of longer established mutuals in leisure services. The findings will contribute new knowledge on the role of employee and user involvement in introducing innovative approaches to meeting service needs and the role of local contexts and external support providers.
The methods will involve:
1. A systematic review of the literature: to build on interdisciplinary understanding and insights from relevant literatures on the public sector, mutualisation and employee-owned organisational forms, and service/social innovation.
2. Mapping of the employee owned-enterprise sector: a systematic analysis of existing data sets on mutuals, co-operatives and other third sector organisations involved in public service delivery. A new data set will be generated from existing databases which will serve to identify the key sectors and sample of organisations for the field research.
3. Interviews with key stakeholders: at national level, including key policy actors, commissioners, trade unions etc in different regions and sectors.
4. Surveys with mutual organisations: 30 mutuals in health and social care and in leisure services will be selected to represent a range of organisational types and activities. For each organisation, interviews will be conducted with senior and other staff members, support providers, users/beneficiaries, commissioners, unions and other key stakeholders.
Knowledge exchange has been embedded in the design of the project through consultation with all stakeholders during its preparation, and the assembly of a research team that combines experienced researchers, policy thinkers and support providers. The research is designed to have a direct impact on practice and policy as well as academic understanding of the processes of innovation public service delivery.
Planned Impact
This proposal has been developed in collaboration with the range of potential users of the findings and originates in their demand for evidence on innovative delivery of public services combined with the identification of gaps in the academic literature.
Who will benefit?
- Service providers: these include existing mutuals, those thinking of becoming mutuals
- Service users: these may be bodies representing patients and others users
- Support providers: advisors, professional firms and unions
- Policy makers: national and local level as well as commissioners, advisors , lobby groups and think tanks
How will they benefit?
The research will provide new insights into the types of innovations, the approaches to innovation, challenges, barriers and how these can be overcome. With this information policies can be developed that are based on a rigorous evidence base, with appropriate support provided, an enabling environment created and commissioning that is more responsive. Those providing services will gain better understanding and guidance on how to become more innovative, how to manage innovation and how to manage the risks of innovation. Support providers will be able to develop their products and services to provide more appropriate assistance. The main objective is to encourage those types of innovation that are likely to lead to positive social impacts for users of services.
What will be done to ensure they benefit?
A Knowledge Exchange Strategy will be developed in partnership with the Knowledge Exchange Hub, ensuring that all users of the research can have an input throughout the research allowing both ideas to be fed into the research design and results to be disseminated. The partnership with the Transition Institute will allow for close working relationships with key stakeholders in the public services innovation field including NESTA, Social Enterprise London, Innovation Unit, OPM, Young Foundation, Local Partnerships as well as other support organisations and professional firms.
An Advisory Group will be established which will shape the research and been a route for sharing the learning. Key stakeholders from different government departments and support organisations have offered to participate already. it would also include academics Professor Pete Alcock Director of TSRC and Professor Stephen Osbourne as well as a representative of IRC.
Policy briefing papers will also be prepared on a number of topics, drawing out key findings and recommendations. These results will be presented at local and national events to maximise impact. The results will also be prepared in accessible ways for different forms of media, online and the press.
Engagement with policy makers will be through small policy circles and working with policy teams such as Mutuals Task Force in the Cabinet Office and those working on Right to Provide in the Department of Health. Policy makers in these departments have already expressed their desire to work with this project and letters of support are included.
Events for linking users with the research findings will be set up at two points in the project, and the project team will participate in other events arranged by other bodies. In particular we will work closely with membership groups such as Employee Ownership Association and Cooperatives UK, both of which are supporting this application (see letters of support).
We will monitor the impact of the work throughout the project to identify how users of the research are accessing knowledge generated. This will also be of use in demonstrating the impact of this research.
Who will benefit?
- Service providers: these include existing mutuals, those thinking of becoming mutuals
- Service users: these may be bodies representing patients and others users
- Support providers: advisors, professional firms and unions
- Policy makers: national and local level as well as commissioners, advisors , lobby groups and think tanks
How will they benefit?
The research will provide new insights into the types of innovations, the approaches to innovation, challenges, barriers and how these can be overcome. With this information policies can be developed that are based on a rigorous evidence base, with appropriate support provided, an enabling environment created and commissioning that is more responsive. Those providing services will gain better understanding and guidance on how to become more innovative, how to manage innovation and how to manage the risks of innovation. Support providers will be able to develop their products and services to provide more appropriate assistance. The main objective is to encourage those types of innovation that are likely to lead to positive social impacts for users of services.
What will be done to ensure they benefit?
A Knowledge Exchange Strategy will be developed in partnership with the Knowledge Exchange Hub, ensuring that all users of the research can have an input throughout the research allowing both ideas to be fed into the research design and results to be disseminated. The partnership with the Transition Institute will allow for close working relationships with key stakeholders in the public services innovation field including NESTA, Social Enterprise London, Innovation Unit, OPM, Young Foundation, Local Partnerships as well as other support organisations and professional firms.
An Advisory Group will be established which will shape the research and been a route for sharing the learning. Key stakeholders from different government departments and support organisations have offered to participate already. it would also include academics Professor Pete Alcock Director of TSRC and Professor Stephen Osbourne as well as a representative of IRC.
Policy briefing papers will also be prepared on a number of topics, drawing out key findings and recommendations. These results will be presented at local and national events to maximise impact. The results will also be prepared in accessible ways for different forms of media, online and the press.
Engagement with policy makers will be through small policy circles and working with policy teams such as Mutuals Task Force in the Cabinet Office and those working on Right to Provide in the Department of Health. Policy makers in these departments have already expressed their desire to work with this project and letters of support are included.
Events for linking users with the research findings will be set up at two points in the project, and the project team will participate in other events arranged by other bodies. In particular we will work closely with membership groups such as Employee Ownership Association and Cooperatives UK, both of which are supporting this application (see letters of support).
We will monitor the impact of the work throughout the project to identify how users of the research are accessing knowledge generated. This will also be of use in demonstrating the impact of this research.
Publications
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(2017)
Public service innovation and multiple institutional logics: The case of hybrid social enterprise providers of health and wellbeing
in Research Policy
Stumbitz B
(2017)
Dance to Health
Sepulveda, L
(2013)
Social Enterprise and Ethnic Minorities: Exploring the consequences of the evolving British policy agenda
in Environment and Planning C (Government and Policy)
Sepulveda L
(2018)
Social Enterprise spin-outs: an institutional analysis of their emergence and potential
in Technical Analysis and Strategic Management
Sepulveda L
(2020)
Implementing Democratic Governance and Ownership: The Interplay of Structure and Culture in Public Service Social Enterprises
in VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
Sepulveda L
(2016)
Social Enterprise Governance and the Elusiveness of Social Ownership
Sepulveda L
(2018)
' Social enterprise spin-outs ': an institutional analysis of their emergence and potential
in Technology Analysis & Strategic Management
Mair S
(2017)
Handbook of Sustainability Science
Lyon F
(2019)
Financing social enterprises and the demand for social investment
in Strategic Change
Fergus Lyon (Author)
(2013)
Processes of innovation in mutual spin outs; the case of social enterprises leaving the public sector
Fergus Lyon (Author)
(2012)
Processes of innovation in mutual forms: the case of public sector mutual spin outs
Fergus Lyon (Author)
(2013)
Public sector spinouts: A new pathway for the development of social enterprises?
Doherty B
(2014)
Social Enterprises as Hybrid Organizations: A Review and Research Agenda
in International Journal of Management Reviews
Description | A new project was funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) |
First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice |
Impact Types | Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
Description | Cabinet Office's Office for Civil Society policy briefing |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | Dance to Health - a falls prevention dance programme |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | High level research discussion attended by the Health Minister and several other policy makers nationally. Middlesex research helped AESOP develop the market for social enterprises delivering health services through arts. Dance to health. |
Description | NESTA policy briefing |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | Center for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity |
Amount | £4,755,356 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/M010163/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2016 |
End | 12/2020 |
Description | Dance to Health |
Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Arts Enterprise with a Social Purpose |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2015 |
End | 11/2016 |
Description | Exploring the Impacts of Volunteer Business Mentoring on Young Entrepreneurs across the YBI Network |
Amount | £64,560 (GBP) |
Organisation | Youth Business International |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2015 |
End | 03/2018 |
Description | Global Evaluation of Youth Business International Entrepreneurial Mentoring Programme |
Amount | £53,800 (GBP) |
Organisation | Youth Business International |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2015 |
End | 03/2018 |
Description | INDIVIDUAL COACHING IMPACT EVALUATION |
Amount | £54,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | France |
Start | 01/2019 |
End | 12/2020 |
Description | International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities (INCASI) |
Amount | € 2,344,500 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 691004 |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 01/2016 |
End | 12/2019 |
Description | Public Services Mutual's Research |
Amount | £196,900 (GBP) |
Organisation | Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2017 |
End | 06/2020 |
Description | Wellbeing Community Businesses |
Amount | £24,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Power to Change |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2017 |
End | 02/2018 |
Title | End of the award findings report for UK Data Service |
Description | A coding guide was developed for use by researchers to facilitate analysis of data collected (e.g. transcripts), comprising 21 main themes or NVivo 'nodes'. Two excerpts of transcriptions have been made available via ESRC UK Data Service: '04. Ethos - mission - cultures (advantages - disadvantages)' and '12. Innovation strategy and culture' |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | none known |
Description | INCASI |
Organisation | Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | INCASI consortium comprises 19 universities; 10 from Europe (including institutions from Finland, France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom and 9 from Latin America (including universities from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay). The Coordination of the project is led by the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. |
Collaborator Contribution | The project comprises a large-scale secondment programme between European and Latin American universities and consists of colleagues from all of the EU partner universities undertaking research stays in Latin American universities, and colleagues from the Latin American universities completing research stays in their EU counterpart universities. Middlesex University will send 10 people abroad and receive over 15 people from Latin American during the four-years period that the project covers. |
Impact | Each member university of the INCASI consortium will have responsibilities to organise the secondments above (over 500 month-secondments in total) and report to the European Commission on the different work packages and related deliverables that the project comprises. The Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and its role as project Coordinator will be also responsible for the organisation of local, regional and global network meetings. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Meeting with DCMS/Office of Civil Society |
Organisation | Social Enterprise UK |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | conducting longitudinal qualitative study |
Collaborator Contribution | conducting longitudinal qualitative study |
Impact | Advising the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sports |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | SSE |
Organisation | SQW Consultants |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Middlesex University team took a leading role in this project in the application, execution and delivery process. We designed the research framework and methodology, collected primary data and did most of the data analysis and reporting and were in charge of establishing this partnership with SQW - who has a large track record and experience in conducting evaluations. |
Collaborator Contribution | SQW, our minor partner in this project, contributed to the different stages of the project but particularly to the data collection and data analysis stages. They also provided feedback on early version of the final report |
Impact | The main output of this collaboration was the design of a bespoke methodology which can be used for other similar evaluations and the research report itself - from which we have learnt s lot |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | YBI |
Organisation | Youth Business International |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | N/A |
Collaborator Contribution | N/A |
Impact | No Outputs yet |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Civil Society Strategy Roundtable |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The Office for Civil Society/DCMS invited contributor to a roundtable discussion with senior policy makers drafting the Civil Society Strategy |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Government Inclusive Economy Unit,Office of Civil Society presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Shared interim findings of research on mutuals with Office of Civil Society, Government Inclusive Economy Unit. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Advice on Wellbeing centres for Druglink |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Advised a charity setting up wellbeing centres on social enterprise models related to therapeutic horticulture and other approaches |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Approaches and challenges of user engagement |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Innovation Beyond the Spin N?A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Australian delegation on mutuals and cooperatives |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Hosted delgation from Australian Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals, and policy makers looking at public service mutuals |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Ben Metz, to discuss social enterprise |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Meeting to share research on social enterprise and make links to social enterprise activity led by Ben. Discussed opportunities to work with Alise Kirtley. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Briefing Government Inclusive Economy Unit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Breifing senior policy makers in Whitehall on CUSP research on social enterprise |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Cabinet Office Business Partnership team |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Invited to give advice on inclusive growth and social investment |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Cardiff Social Economy practitioner and policy roundtable |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Roundtable meeting discussing city governance, social economy and inclusive growth with leading local policy makers, civil society orgs and researchers |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Community Business, health and wellbeing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Blog on Middlesex University report launched by Power to Change https://www.powertochange.org.uk/research/finding-innovative-ways-health-social-care-community-business/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.powertochange.org.uk/research/finding-innovative-ways-health-social-care-community-busin... |
Description | Creative Industry Ownership Models |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Round table discussion on cooperative ownership models for creative industry |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | DCMS staff workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Workshop at Office of Civil Society on how social enterprises, social investors and public service commissioners balance social, environmental and commercial objectives in their work, and the support required to build their capabilities |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | DCMS staff workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Workshop at Office of Civil Society on how social enterprises, social investors and public service commissioners balance social, environmental and commercial objectives in their work, and the support required to build their capabilities |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Data provided for SEUK report |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Social Enterprise UK has used CUSP data in its report Hidden revolution: the size and scale of social enterprise in 2018. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | European Group for organization Studies (EGOS) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Papers presented on social enterprise and innovation to the European Group for organization Studies (EGOS) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | INNOVATION BEYOND THE SPIN |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Event at Nesta none known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Innovation beyond the spin - Blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Blog sparked some discussions None known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/finance/blogs/content/17286/innovation_beyond_the_spin |
Description | Innovation beyond the spin - workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | NA |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Innovation in Public Service Spin-outs: Forms, Processes and Learning |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Innovation Beyond the Spin - seminar Seminar |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | International Social Innovation Research Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Conference on social enterprise, innovation and design thinking for wellbeing and sustainability. Fergus Lyon (Deputy Director of CUSP) led a stream on scaling impact, that looked at how social enterprises and other organisations can increase their impact. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Mutualisation of Public Services agenda |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | An Invitation to share emerging findings from the Mutuals study for the social enterprise sector |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Research discussion at the South Bank Centre for Arts Enterprise with a Social Purpose (AESOP) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | High level research discussion attended by the Health Minister and several other policy makers nationally. Middlesex research helped AESOP develop the market for social enterprises delivering health services through arts. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Seminar Four: Innovation in public services |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Joint event of IRC and TSRC Paper on Mutuals and innovation none known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Sheffield Social Economy practitioner and policy roundtable |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Roundtable meeting discussing city governance, social economy and inclusive growth with leading local policy makers, civil society orgs and researchers |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Social enterprise and health Fit for the Future conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Reporting findings on community business research to Politicians and social enterprises |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Spin-out Network |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited keynote speech Innovation Beyond the Spin |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Spin-out as a pathway to employee ownership? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Innovation beyond the spin None known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Talk at Universitie libre de Bruxelles |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk on hybrid social enterprise models in UK, Ghana, Bhutan and Bangladesh |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | The nature of innovation in mutual spinouts |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Innovation Beyond the Spin |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Webinar - Innovating social enterprise strategies and approaches |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqdKzgaPMBg&index=8&list=PLQZ9ucOSQNXvxrkl10eOowAHIo4IDo7gq&spfreloa... |