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We’ve written about the end of the Public Service Launchpad Accelerator before, where 14 teams came together over 14 weeks to come up with ideas that help solve a range of social problems.

The Public Service Launchpad Accelerator was the first of its kind. While there are other accelerator programmes supporting social start ups, it uniquely worked with a mixture of social entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs (people setting up innovative ventures within their own organisations) and took on projects at an early stage in their developments.

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To read the original article: FutureGov | 18 Lessons Learned from Running the Public Service Accelerator