First findings of the global mapping of SI-DRIVE were presented at the SIERC Conference, on 11^th February 2016 at Massey University Auckland in New Zealand. The New Zealand Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre (SIERC), represented by its director and the SI-DRIVE advisory board member Anne de Bruin, organised an event on ‘Collaborating for Impact’, showing the importance of collaborative action and discussing the tension of ‘profit and non-profit’ for social innovations. In this context Antonius Schröder (TU Dortmund University) presented first results of SI-DRIVE based on more than 1.000 social innovation cases from all over the world. Special attention was paid to the question of how to improve impact. Results show that

1. social demands and societal challenges as well as individuals/groups/networks are the main drivers of social innovations;
2. empowerment, human resources and knowledge are the main sources for increasing impact;
3. and – while almost all initiatives are scaling – there is no or limited transfer, leading to the need of new or better ways of transfer and imitation.