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Compendium for the Civic Economy launch

This event showcased some of the case studies in the book and the insights that have emerged.

In Government innovation

12 May 2011

Nesta, London

At this event we launched the Compendium for the Civic Economy, a fantastic collection of case studies and lessons of civic enterprise and innovation.

A meeting of civic entrepreneurs

We were delighted to be joined by an audience from a whole host of different backgrounds, and especially pleased that many of the civic entrepreneurs and practitioners featured in the book were able to be part of the event.

A collection of great case studies

At this event we launched the Compendium for the Civic Economy, a fantastic collection of case studies and lessons of civic enterprise and innovation.

The panellists

We kicked off with Inderpaul Johar who talked about the genealogy of the project, then opened up to some lively conversation with our panel - Pam Warhurst from Incredible Edible Todmorden, Sam Conniff from youth communications agency Livity, and Tom Bolton from the Centre for Cities.