Research & Knowledge Creation CESI has produced one book, 2 journal papers, 7 conference papers, 7 case studies, and 4 book chapters on social innovation, covering topics such as CSR, community-based organizations, and social enterprises.
Projects The Centre has delivered 4+ core courses & workshops on Social Innovation, conducted 4+ Management Development Programs (MDPs), and launched the Professional Certificate Programme in Management of Social Initiatives, enrolling 110+ participants across two batches and a revenue of INR 1.4 crores.
Consulting & Advisory Service CESI has completed 4 consulting projects for organizations, including impact assessments and strategic advisory services. It is currently engaged as an IVA for the World Bank and Sikkim Govt INSPIRES project and has generated over INR 2.2 crore in consulting revenue.
Conferences & Industry Engagement The Centre has hosted and participated in 10+ conferences, webinars, and panel discussions, including the GIT, PAN-IIM World Management Conference, CII Social Entrepreneurship Conclave, and BL Conclave.
Entrepreneurship & CBO Engagement TThrough the InnoVate social innovation pitch event, CESI has supported 10+ social enterprises tackling sustainability, livelihoods, and inclusion. It has also facilitated multiple field immersion programs for iTEC, engaging directly with community-based organizations.
What is Social Innovation?
- India is home to diverse social settings evolving over time. This has given rise to complex social problems demanding innovative solutions in the face of institutional barriers.
- Social innovation that gives rise to these solutions therefore are also diverse and unique.
- An understanding and dissemination of such social innovations can benefit societies globally in solving their problems.
Centre Repository
Research: The Centre undertakes research in diverse areas of social innovation. Some of these include social innovation challenges in the wake of Covid-19, social innovation as manifest in Community Based Organisations (CBOs), socio-technical innovations, social innovations and startups.
Outputs: Expected outputs include research papers, research and teaching cases, book chapters and also immersion program designs for training programs.
Vision
CESI will curate the knowledge of social innovation in India and offer it to the world as part of IIM Kozhikode’s overall vision of Globalizing Indian Thought.
Mission
CESI intends to undertake impactful research to synthesise knowledge of social innovation as available from practice for achieving the dual purpose of contributing to theory on social innovation as also help in its application in different contexts.
Objectives
In the short term, CESI wants to evolve into a rich repository of social innovation practices in India through its research and publications. In the longer term it hopes to create an international network of researchers, policy makers and practitioners so as to use its knowledge base to impact areas of research, teaching, training and policy making that involve social innovation. One of the first objectives being to sensitize graduating MBAs to social innovation and its opportunities whether in corporate, government or philanthropy.
Activities
Centre Activities
IIMK-Times Group Join Hands for the third offering of the Certificate Programme in Management of Social Initiatives
IIMK-NCW Join Hands to Launch Professional Programme for Early-Stage Women Entrepreneurs
Certificate Program in the Management of Social (CPMSI) Initiatives
Initiatives were envisioned as a vehicle of nurturing women change makers by giving them conceptual grounding on the three pillars of social initiatives namely corporate social responsibility, not-for-profit work and social entrepreneurship. The first program was designed for the Naval Wives Welfare Association (NWWA, Southern Region) of the Indian Navy.
Practice Fellowship
Practice Fellowship is offered to those who completed the certificate program- CPMSI, as a vehicle for ongoing mentoring and peer learning. The Practice Fellowship comprises an Ideation Stage and an Accomplishment stage to enable the participant to get closer to starting their own social initiative (each of six months duration).
Team
Patron
Prof. Debashis Chatterjee
Director, IIM KozhikodeAdvisory Board
Prof. Anil Gupta
Founder of the Honey Bee Network. Professor, IIM Ahmedabad(Retd)
Mr Nixon Joseph
Group Executive Director, DEVI Sansthan, LucknowFormer President, SBI Foundation
Centre Members
Prof S Venkataraman
Member
Prof. Sumit Mitra
Member
Prof Omkumar Krishnan
Member
Prof Soumya Roy
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Prof Aswin Alora
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Contact Us
Contact Person:
Research Fellow
csra6@iimk.ac.in
Office:
Centre of Excellence for Social Innovation (CESI)
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
IIMK P.O.
Kozhikode (District)
Kerala
Pin/Zip: 673570
Email:
chair-cesi@iimk.ac.in
Call:
+91-495-2809467