Social Innovation Podcast

Reflecting on the first podcast season with Leksell Social Ventures' Hugo Mörse

Mimerse CTO Willian Hamilton on Virtual Reality for mental health

Scaling social impact with Norrsken Foundation COO Dr. Funda Sezgi

English catch up on Swedish conversations with Leksell Social Ventures Hugo Mörse

Economics of public good and social investments (Swedish)

Swedish Innovation Agency Director of Strategic design on social innovation

Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth on social enterprise

Reach for Change CEO Sofia Breitholtz on the state of social enterprise

We discuss the unicity and value add of practices unique to social entrepreneurship and the ability to drive focus on purpose of business. We talk about the trend of increasing popular momentum not the least in financing impact but the need for patient capital and stimulation of supply of project pipelines as well as stimulation of demand for social enterprise products and services.

Mental health trends and needs in Sweden (Swedish)

In this episode, the national coordinator for mental health, Ing-Marie Wieselgren from the National Association of Regions and Municipalities, discusses the state of mental health in Sweden and what we can do to improve and innovate for a mentally healthier Sweden. This episode is in Swedish. A catch up episode in English will follow.

Tech for impact with Norrsken CIO Tove Larsson

Norrsken Foundation CIO Tove Larsson expands on investment themes, trends and the challenges of impact investing

Municipalities making social investments (Swedish)

Social democrat and chairman of Norrköping municipality Lars Stjernkvist speaks about municipalities innovating approaches to social investments and social innovation.

Tech for labour market integration of migrants

Andreas König CEO of Just Arrived and Just Tech talks about innovating with tech for labour market integration of migrants coming to Sweden.

Tech for clinical mental health

Kristian Ranta of MERU Health discusses the opportunities and challenges of innovating in clinical mental health and how MERU created its own innovation platform to validate new solutions.

Measuring impact

Annica Johansson from Reach4Change* expands on how impact is measured in social enterprises and how to take measurement beyond tedious reporting toward an everyday resource for improving business and learning. *upon release of this episode, Executive Director at Effektfullt

Can artificial intelligence support migrant integration?

Martin Siltberg from Sana Labs speaks about how artificial intelligence can improve education and even crack scale language training for migrants integrating in new societies.

Leadership in a tech for good startup

Democratising personal growth globally with technology

Erik Fernholm, CEO of 29k talks in this first of two episodes about the need to democratise personal growth and development to drive sustainability in society. 29k seeks to make cutting edge personal development available globally for under 1 USD per person.

Non-profits running businesses and hybrid organisations

Johan Oljeqvist is the CEO of Fryshuset, one of Sweden's most successfulnon-profit organizations. They have mastered the art of hybrid organization and governance, simoultaneously being a member based non-profit, a foundation, a profitable business and a lobby organization. Johan makes the case for how to build and grow from your values as an organisation and what it takes to live your values when they come into conflict with society and stakeholders. His advice is to get to know ...

Sustainable bonds - can financial innovation save the world?

Since the episode was recorded sustainable bonds have advanced further! 17% of all bonds in SEK are now green and more sustainable bonds (green and social) have been realised.

Can social investment save welfare?

The case for social investments in welfare/government The social contract of welfare is under strain and public confidence in the services provided by government is wavering. There is a need to drive more efficient use of public resources in order to more cheaply drive impact and outcomes as well as freeing up public resources to adequately cover critical needs. Social investments as a phenomenon are growing as a potential solution to evolving problems in welfare and public servi...

Quitting your job to start an impact business with Tove Toll

Finding for a co-founder, starting up with a friend Deciding to leave a full time job for starting a business Learning about the mental health and personal development market Customer conversations leading development of business and product Aligning business and values, knowing the WHY Testing different business development ideas and pivoting with experience, three roads become one International expansion, a lucky break into the Netherlands Dating investors, ask for advice not money...

Social engineering vs. social innovation

In this fourth episode Malmö University academic Fredrik Björk unpacks the history of social innovation. Is social innovation really something new, or just a rebranding of old traditions of evolving society? What if effective altruism and impact entrepreneurship is just old school social engineering and neo-colonialism in emperors clothing?

The angel investor on impact - Hampus Jacobsson

This conversation discusses how impact business meets the forefront of the development of tech and government. We discuss how business for impact can best be made. And what obstacles it is likely to face along the way. Hampus is one of the most profiled angel investors / VCs in Sweden, having built TAT, The Amazing Tribe and sold it to Blackberry he and the TAT team turned their attention to building a vibrant startup ecosystem in Malmö, Sweden. He is passionate about the potentia...

Disrupting education the right way?

Why does social innovation fair so poorly in contributing to education in modern Scandinavian welfare? “Kognity is worth a closer look for the lessons it gives in how to win the mandate to innovate education.” During the course of my years as an impact investor I have discovered a little-known market for grass roots innovation around the education system in Sweden, especially focusing on basic education up to secondary. Non- profits and entrepreneurs are doing work on improving sc...

Renegotiating the social contract of modern welfare?

Social innovation is the practice of solving social problems with new methodology to achieve economically sustainable, scalable and measurable social impact for the target groups suffering social problems. The Social Innovation Podcast seeks to demystify and give you an insider’s perspective on social innovation as it is developing in Sweden and Scandinavia. Overarching questions What is happening to the Scandinavian social contract in response to social innovation? Where, how a...