ownership of ideas at the Social Innovation Camp is an important point (disclaimer: I’m one of the organisers)

Our aim is to help create new relationships between people who can help one another start new projects - we don’t have any interest (or for that matter capacity) to take on other people’s ideas ourselves.

We want to invite the people who send us their ideas to join us at the Social Innovation Camp weekend and ideally, we want these people to leave the weekend a step closer to making their project a reality themselves.

We have, however, had people contact us with ideas who say that whilst they’d like to help get their idea off the ground, they don’t have the time to run a start-up or new project themselves. We’d like to see these people come along to the Social Innovation Camp weekend and try and help them identify others who do have the time/abilitiy/capacity to see their idea through.

Hope that makes it a bit clearer - I’ll add this question to our FAQ as well…. further comments/criticisms v welcome.

Many thanks,

Anna Maybank - anna[@]sicamp.org

From the website:
“We’re currently thinking about the best way to help you pursue your venture – or if it’s more appropriate, find someone to take it on for you.”

To me that reads “Please bring your great ideas. If we like them we will take them off you.”

I think that needs a bit more definition as I’m sure that’s not what is intended!