Scaling up Social Innovation

Most social innovations in modern times have arisen from the voluntary sector, in part because it is hard for individuals to pursue their passion in either state or market institutions. However, our hypothesis is that to scale up, social innovation has to move from the voluntary sector to state and market institutions.

In this article, author Vijay Mahajan takes into account the social innovations that happened through out history and pan India and describes how voluntary agencies engineered the social innovations and scaled them up by actively engaging with state and market institutions.

Read the entire article here.