Resources

THE FIRST WORLD’S CROWDFUNDING COUNCIL BOND

Social innovation product and business model.

The brochure presents the world's first crowdfunding council bond and also the European first council green bond developed by the crowdfunding platform Abundance during the SocialRES project.

FOSTERING ENERGY DEMOCRACY THROUGH SOCIAL INNOVATION

Paper presented by SocialRES partners at the 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition

SWOT analyses for cooperatives, crowd-funding platforms and aggregators of renewable energies

The SWOT analysis is an important step for new development in the case studies. It helps the project partners to understand the structure and the needs of the different case studies and offers a base for the anticipated development of social innovations and new business models.

The SWOT analyses have been carried out for the SocialRES case studies and the related matchmaking activities. The case studies represent the cooperatives, aggregators of renewable energy and crowdfunding platform partners of the project.

Database of driving factors in social innovations in the energy sector

The aim of this report is to define the main factors that drive citizens, investors and other stakeholders to contribute in social innovation schemes for clean-energy transition. This is done by a literature review of qualitative and quantitative elements (section “State of the Art”), the categorisation of motivations for social innovation in the energy sector (section “classification for driving factors in social innovations in the energy sector“) and the results of the first survey realised within the SocialRES project with the managers of aggregators, cooperatives, and crowdfunding platforms (section “Results of the survey”). The main result is a database of driving factors that will be used to analyse innovative business models as well as in the survey with participants of social innovations in the energy sector.