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{{short description, Think tank for improving quality of life The Institute for Social Inventions was a
think tank A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture. Most think tanks are non-governmenta ...
set up in 1985 to publicise and launch good ideas for improving the quality of life. Its founder
Nicholas Albery Nicholas Bronson Albery (28 July 1948 – 3 June 2001) was a British social inventor and author, was the instigator or coordinator of a variety of projects aimed at an improvement to society, often known as the alternative society. Early life and ...
(1948–2001) sought to promote non-technological innovations.


History

The Institute emerged from the informal
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of
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s and Info-services which spread around in London throughout the 1970s. One of the earliests of these centers was BIT Information Service, founded in 1968 by John "Hoppy" Hopkins.


Inception

It was during his years as coordinator of BIT that Nicholas Albery came out with the idea of an
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who would promote all kinds of ideas and experimentations, developed mainly inside what has been called the "
Alternative Society A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores.Eric Donald Hirsch. ''The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy''. Hou ...
".


Main idea

The institute has been known by different names, such as "Institute for Social Innovations", or "Institute for
Social Change Social change is the alteration of the social order of a society which may include changes in social institutions, social behaviours or social relations. Definition Social change may not refer to the notion of social progress or sociocult ...
". All these denominations revolved around the concept of new improvements to be made within the situation of the mainstream society, as it goes at any time to be considered.


Aftermath

It merged with the Global Ideas Bank, formed in 1995.


See also

*
Ideas bank An ideas bank is a widely available shared resource, usually a website, where people post, exchange, discuss, and polish new ideas. Some ideas banks are used to develop new inventions or technologies. Many corporations have installed internal id ...
*
List of UK think tanks This is a list of think tanks in the United Kingdom. A–I * Adam Smith Institute * Africa Research Institute * Bow Group * Boyd Group * Brand EU * Bright Blue * British American Security Information Council * British Future * Bruges Group ...


References

* Social innovations edited by Albery, Mezey and Radcliffe ISI 0948826 30 4 Ideas banks Public policy think tanks based in the United Kingdom Counterculture