The Social Innovation Summit: Building the Field in 2020 will discuss the current landscape of the field of social innovation, focusing on emerging areas of theoretical and empirical work. The summit will take place in Los Angeles, California on Friday, April 3, 2020, with a reception the night before, on the campus of the University of Southern California. The Summit will begin with a framing by Price Center Director Gary Painter on social innovation as an academic field. The Summit will then feature four paper sessions, each to include four papers and a discussant to facilitate conversation around the common themes.

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Call for Papers

The Summit invites leading social innovation scholars from across the globe to share and discuss research papers. We will have four paper panels; topics may include but are not limited to, social movements, social entrepreneurship, sectors and systems, and financing social innovation. Paper discussions will explore common threads across these areas, illuminating new and emerging areas of scholarship for the field of social innovation.

The Price Center for Social Innovation encourages students, scholars, and educators from all disciplines to submit paper proposals for the Social Innovation Summit. Individual paper proposals should include an extended abstract (5 pages) with the title of the paper, name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, and phone number. Full papers are also welcome.

Papers to be circulated by March 16, 2020.

Proposals will be accepted until November 30, 2019. Please email your submission to Caroline Bhalla, Managing Director of the Price Center for Social Innovation: cbhalla@usc.edu.

Some travel funds are available. Please indicate in cover note if you require travel funding. Hotel accommodations will be provided at the USC Hotel for all participants.