Geoff Mulgan about the state of Social Innovation

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“Why is the world so good in developing nanotechnologies, implementing cloud computing or shooting people to the moon (or mars), and incapable of tackling wicked problems like child obesity, waste or isolation of elderly people?".

[...]" We will have to find a difficult equilibrium between progress and correcting its negative side-effects. The world obviously has problems dealing with these side-effects: Geoff Mulgan displayed various statistics which show that the more countries spend on health-related expenditures, the worse their citizens are off! 'We have a fundamentally wrong system somewhere', concludes Mulgan."

Simon Duffy