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"Over the last two centuries, innumerable social innovations, from cognitive behavioural therapy for prisoners to Wikipedia, have moved from the margins to the mainstream. As this has happened, many have passed through the three stages that Schopenhauer identified for any new "truth": First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

Geoff Mulgan: Social Innovation: what it is, why it matters and how it can be accelerated (2006)

A Tekes news article on innovation journalism here

A recent article on innovation journalism in TM-tietoa 1/2007 (in Finnish) here.

Want to read a really good book on social innovations? Try Social Innovation by Geoff Mulgan, Simon Tucker, Rushanara Ali and Ben Sanders.

Innovation journalism = Making the Future Work of society as effective and transparent as possible

Kauhanen, Kaivo-oja, Hautamäki: Innovaatiomedia: Journalismi tulevaisuuden tekijänä (ISBN 978-951- 570-702-4, "Innovation media: Journalism as the maker of the future", only in Finnish). You can order it from Gaudeamus. See here.

The final report of our research project Kauhanen & Noppari (2007): Innovation, Journalism and Future (Tekes, Technology Review 200/2007) is published. You can order a free printed copy from Tekes or download a pdf here or at the Journalism Research and Development Centre of the University of Tampere.