We had an intuition that where social innovation happened matters, but we didn’t realize all of the different ways that it matters,” says Thomas Lawrence, professor of strategy at the Said Business School at Oxford University. “We started looking at specific places, and we were surprised at the diversity of places that matter.” Along with Graham Dover, executive director of the Mindset Social Innovation Foundation, an organization in Vancouver, Canada, Lawrence studied how the use of…

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