Leksell Social Ventures

05/12/2019

In this episode, the national coordinator for mental health, Ing-Marie Wieselgren from the National Association of Regions and Municipalities, discusses the state of mental health in Sweden and what we can do to improve and innovate for a mentally healthier Sweden. This episode is in Swedish. A catc...

08/10/2019

Social democrat and chairman of Norrköping municipality Lars Stjernkvist speaks about municipalities innovating approaches to social investments and social innovation.

30/09/2019

Andreas König CEO of Just Arrived and Just·Tech talks about innovating with tech for labour market integration of migrants coming to Sweden. 14th episode of Social Innovation Podcast sponsored by Leksell Social Ventures

Andreas König CEO of Just Arrived and Just Tech talks about innovating with tech for labour market integration of migrants coming to Sweden.

24/09/2019

Kristian Ranta from Meru Health speaks about disrupting clinical mental health with tech and how to innovate in proximity to institutional systems. New episode of the Social Innovation Podcast sponsored by Leksell Social Ventures. Interview by Henrik Storm Dyrssen and commentary by Hugo Mörse

https://www.socialinnovationpodcast.net/episodes/tech-for-clinical-mental-health

Kristian Ranta of MERU Health discusses the opportunities and challenges of innovating in clinical mental health and how MERU created its own innovation platform to validate new solutions.

17/09/2019

What have we learned?

Halfway mark for Sweden's first social outcomes contract (aka Social Impact Bond) in Norrköpings kommun together with SKL - Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting, Leksell Social Ventures and Lumell Associates

Read the interim report from Leksell Social Ventures here

Swedish:http://www.leksellsocialventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Rapport_Socialt-utfallskontrakt_12-September_Final.pdf

English:http://www.leksellsocialventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Report_Social-outcomes-contract_12-September_Final.pdf

18/08/2019

11th episode out from Social Innovation Podcast with Martin Siltberg from Sana Labs talking AI for education and language training for migrants, enjoy!

Martin Siltberg from Sana Labs speaks about how artificial intelligence can improve education and even crack scale language training for migrants integrating in new societies.

18/07/2019

New episode of the Social Innovation Podcast! How can a non-profit run a for profit business, Johan Oljeqvist CEO of FRYSHUSET helps us understand the secret sauce of hybrid organisations and how one of Sweden's most successful non-profit platforms was developed.

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02/07/2019

The 7th episode of the Social Innovation Podcast is out! Lars Mac Key of Danske Bank unpacks sustainable bonds, how Sweden became a leader in the field and where the market sees the next opportunities

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29/06/2019

Can social investments save welfare? Episode 6 of Social Innovation Podcast is out featuring Tomas Bokström, program manager of Health and Impact Center at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

https://www.socialinnovationpodcast.net/episodes/can-social-investment-save-welfare

- Tomas updates on the trends in social innovation and social investments in Swedish government and local public services.
- He makes the case for social investments into early interventions as a key to make it possible to reallocate public resources from late stage reactions to proactive prevention of social and health problems.
- Tomas speaks about how the Achilles heel of the public sector, the inability to organise across public organisational silos or across public, non-profit and private sectors can finally be adressed through public procurement and contracting based on achieving outcomes rather than activities.
- He also gives colour to how the Swedish public sector is receiving the innovation of Social Impact Bonds / Social Outcomes Contracts as pioneered by Leksell Social Ventures and Norrköpings kommun together with Uppdrag Psykisk Hälsa

04/06/2019

New episode of the Social Innovation Podcast! Malmö universitet academic Fredrik Björk unpacks the history of social innovation. Is and / just social engineering and neocolonialism in emperors clothing? Enjoy this critical but balanced discussion on the nature of the impact-beast.

In this fourth episode Malmö University academic Fredrik Björk unpacks the history of social innovation. Is social innovation really something new, or just a rebranding of old traditions of evolving society? What if effective altruism and impact entrepreneurship is just old school social engineeri...

01/06/2019

Nytt nyhetsbrev ute från LSV
- 3 nya investeringar
- Nytt avsnitt av Social Innovation Podcast
- Internationell panel om impact investment hos SNS
- Ny Medium-artikel om social innovation i utbildning

Under hösten 2018 genomförde LSV investeringar i Sana Labs, Meru Health och Just Arrived. Utbildning, psykisk hälsa och integration fortsätter vara fokusområden för LSV. Läs mer om casen och den växande portföljen för direktinvesteringar

28/05/2019

Angel investor & VC Hampus Jakobsson and Henrik Storm Dyrssen discuss the challenges and opportunities of impact business in tech.

Releasing this third episode of the Social Innovation Podcast sponsored by Leksell Social Ventures

Angel investor Hampus Jakobsson and I take a look at the realities of impact business in tech and the 'goodie two shoes'/politically correct hype around the scene.