In the final part of their analysis Dr Andrew Curtis and Tara Anderson question the drive to make social innovation more mainstream and call for the re-discovery of the term's origins.

Would Nesta have funded the Grameen Bank and can Coca-Cola really be classed as a social innovator? Dr Andrew Curtis and Tara Anderson warn that social innovation might have lost its way.

Thatcher and Reagan were perhaps the world's greatest neoliberalists – until now. Dr Andrew Curtis and Tara Anderson urge us to consider the motivations of those governments that are embracing the concept of social innovation today.