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_4 transition The Social Innovation Journey: WHO TRANSNATIONAL NETWORK FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INCUBATION Kine Nordstokka, Social Innovation Exchange THE SOCIAL INNOVATION JOURNEY HOW feasibility Pre-testing the idea PRE-PROTOTYPE 4 PRECONDITIONS PROTOTYPE Producing a prototype 5 WHY PEOPLE Engaging and raising awareness 1 TEAM Assessing skill&will, team and/or organization 6 SOCIAL IMPACT 7 SOCIAL 8 VENTURE Defining the business model/plan and strategy INFORMAL 3 VENTURE Defining roles, rules, timing and social business model canvas The Social Innovation Journey was developed by Transition Partners to describe the evolving sequence of actions, activities and tools which the Scaling Centres have experimented with in order to provide support and scale 300 Social Innovations across Europe. The aim is to help incubators and practitioners in developing their own “journeys” of scaling social innovation, by adapting the action format defined by Transition Partners over the last two years. OFFERING Developing the solution and the social impact 2 PROMPT Generating and Developing Ideas WHAT The Social Innovation Journey is an action format for social innovation incubation, focusing on the sequence of steps social innovators may go through, acquiring the skills and capabilities