Learning for Change: Challenging roles in the new economy

In the morning of the first day of the Learning for Change Conference I attended the session: ‘Challenging roles in the new economy’. The session was on current challenges that are faced by Impact Hub Rotterdam (http://impacthub010.nl), which is a member community that connects talent, knowledge and resources of social entrepreneurs. In this blog I will review on the session.

First, one of the researchers that contributed to the TRANSIT research project provided a useful framework to put the challenges in. She explained how state, market and society relate to each other in the world of social innovation.

Then, the founder of Impact Hub Rotterdam told us more about her concept. I really recommend to check their website if you would like to know more about all the interesting initiatives that are taking place at the Impact Hub. The audience was asked to discuss two of the main challenges that are currently faced by the Impact Hub. Since there were peoples with all kinds of different backgrounds attending this session, the discussions that came about were very fruitful.

For me the most important outcome of these discussions was that the willingness to learn from one another can be seen as a key ingredient for successful social innovation. On this conditions new social structures can come about that direct us to the new economy.