Enabling collaboration in ecosystems to unlock social value

Social value covers social, environmental and economic elements integral to all business ecosystems. Following the 2021 update to the UK Government’s Social Value Model, social value must be explicitly evaluated and is thus a fundamental requirement in all public sector contracts, with several of the model award criteria requiring collaboration. The challenge of collaborating in ecosystems to meet primary business and social value requirements with the diversity of players, commercial models and business drivers is considerable. This full-day conference will explore these issues and more with leading speakers from government, defence, aerospace, nuclear and rail sectors, conformity assessment bodies and academia.

— Leeds University Business School

Christina gave a short talk about Space Hub Yorkshire and chaired a case study session on the challenges of enabling collaboration in the space industry ecosystem.