First ‘labcom’ dedicated to social innovation

ANR supports University of Poitiers and Ellyx to launch the first of many “social innovation labs”

The University of Poitiers’ school of human and social sciences, the National Centre for Scientific Research and social enterprise co-operative Ellyx have teamed up to create a new “social innovation” lab.

Financially supported by the National Research Agency (ANR), the so-called Destins project will be the first of several organisations going by the term “labcom”—a joint laboratory dedicated to social innovation. Dominique Royoux, a researcher at the University of Poitiers and director of Destins, said the laboratory would contribute to society in ways that technological research alone had overlooked.