Social (Business) Innovations

Social Business Cities:
A Social Business City is a municipal ecosystem aiming at fostering social businesses locally. A network of local institutions and enterprises shall support social business entrepreneurs. Social Business Cities like Pistoia, Barcelona and Taoyuan have gone through a social business city programm (3 years), which implements and evaluates such a city network. It can be coordinated by the Yunus Social Business Centre Florence:
https://sbflorence.org/en/pistoia-social-business-city



Social Enterprise City Plymouth:
In the UK the government organisation Social Enterprise UK certifies "Social Enterprise Places" like Plymouth calling them Social Enterprise Cities: 
https://plymsocent.org.uk



Amsterdam Impact:
Amsterdam has build up a thriving social business ecosystem in the last years: 
https://www.iamsterdam.com/en/business/amsterdam-impact
Lessons learnt are displayed here: 
https://sewfonline.com/creating-a-climate-where-social-enterprises-could-thrive-amsterdam-impact/



Social Economy Berlin:
Berlin has built up a social business ecosystem coordinated by send e.v., an umbrella association for social entrepreneurship in Germany. It offers consultancy, networking events and other support in terms of finding funding opportunities:
https://socialeconomy.berlin



Social Entrepreneurship City Hamburg:
German city Hamburg has launched its network in February 2014 offering consultancy, funding, networking and knowledge sharing:

https://socialentrepreneurship.hamburg



Sustainable solutions platform:
Tech4good is a platform provided by the EU for sustainable city solutions (renewable energy, mobility,...)
https://marketplace.intelligentcitieschallenge.eu/en?