Alex Nicholls, Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, University of Oxford,Rafael Ziegler, Head of Research, GETIDOS, Universitat Greifswald

Alex Nicholls is Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Said Business School, University of Oxford. He is also a Tutorial Fellow and Member of the Governing Body at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, and in 2004 he was the first staff member of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. He has published six books and over a hundred papers, working papers, book chapters, and articles, including seven papers in Financial Times Top 30 journals. He has been the General Editor of the Skoll Working Papers Series and is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship.

Rafael Ziegler coordinates the Social Entrepreneurship Research Group GETIDOS at the University of Greifswald and the Institute for Ecological Economic Research in Berlin. He is the Editor of An Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship: Voices,Preconditions, Contexts (Edward Elgar 2009). His focus is on social innovation in relation to water, justice, and sustainability.

Jari Aro, University of Tampere
Cees van Beers, Delft University of Technology
Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, University of Pavia
Daniel Edmiston, University of Leeds
Susanne Giesecke, Austrian Institute of Technology
Attila Havas, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies
Risto Heiskala, University of Tampere
Nadia von Jacobi, University of Pavia
Klaus Kubeczko, Austrian Institute of Technology
Martijn van der Linden, Delft University of Technology
Lara Maestripieri, The Autonomous University of Barcelona
Georg Mildenberger, Heidelberg University
György Molnár, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies
C. W. M. (Ro) Naastepad, Delft University of Technology
Gudrun-Christine Schimpf, Heidelberg University

"This worthwhile book introduces a new path with practical relevance to understanding the economic space of social innovation...The book's coverage (in particular, its historical case studies) is impressive, and remarkably, the authors acknowledge that the ESGM is just one way of using insight from innovation studies in social innovation" -- Judith Terstriep, Institute for Work and Technology Westphalian University Gelsenkirchen, Prometheus