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Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation - Social Innovation Policy
Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation, 2019Co-Authors: Nadia Von Jacobi, Daniel Edmiston, Alex Nicholls, Attila Havas, Klaus Kubeczko, György Molnár, Georg Mildenberger, Gudrun SchimpfAbstract:This chapter addresses key issues that public policy seeking to support Social Innovation faces. Combining theoretical insights of the Extended Social Grid Model with empirical results obtained from EU policy surveys and case studies, it identifies key policy implications and recommendations. It first introduces key notions for Social Innovation policy, including the multifaceted landscape into which support is inserted; the necessity to recognize its political character; to what extent insights from business Innovation studies can be useful; and why successful support of Social Innovation must imply institutional change. The chapter then outlines a series of recurrent policy dilemmas such as whether horizontal support should be preferred; the trade-off between degree and costs of marginalization that wish to be targeted; the difficulty to promote a capability to associate; and how the subsidiarity principle may clash against the need to overcome marginalizing processes.
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Social Innovation Policy in the European Union
Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation, 2019Co-Authors: Alex Nicholls, Daniel EdmistonAbstract:This chapter provides a detailed overview of the development of Social Innovation policy in the European Union. It makes an important analytical distinction between policy for Social Innovation and policy as Social Innovation. In the context of these two policy agendas, not only has Social Innovation been understood as a means to achieve an end in this regard, it has also been recognized as an end in itself. These agendas have been advocated by the European Commission and across various individual states. This chapter establishes how the concept of Social Innovation has been understood, applied, and managed in pan-European policy agendas over recent years. It examines the key policy agendas from the perspective of institutions, cognitive frames, and networks: the Europe 2020 strategy (2010–20), the Social Business Initiative and the Social Investment Package.
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Social Innovation Policy in the European Union
Policy Design in the European Union, 2018Co-Authors: Alex Nicholls, Daniel EdmistonAbstract:In recent years, Social Innovation has become an increasingly prominent concept employed by political leaders and administrations across the world. In 2003, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) supported a range of initiatives and research to promote inclusive entrepreneurship and ‘improve Social cohesion through the identification and dissemination of local Innovations’. In 2009, President Barack Obama established the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation to support cross-sectoral, bottom-up solutions to Social problems and challenges in the USA. In Europe, Social Innovation has proved to be equally conspicuous in pan-European strategies and domestic policies. Innovation has been of enduring interest and concern for European Union (EU) policy for many years (Borzaga and Bodini 2014), but since the late 1990s Social Innovation in particular has captured the political interest of supranational organisations and domestic actors (Pol and Ville 2009; Grisolia and Ferragina 2015). In the EU, Social Innovation has been posited as a solution to both old and new Social risks at a time of heightened uncertainty and pressure on public administrations and finances (Bonoli 2005; OECD 2011; Sinclair and Baglioni 2014). It seems clear that this considerable interest in Social Innovation has been intimately linked to the Great Recession, structural unemployment and the Social challenges arising as a result (European Commission 2014a). Indeed, a key feature of the Europe 2020 strategy was to facilitate and embed Social Innovation across Europe to ‘deliver the kind of inclusive and sustainable Social market economy we all want to live in’ (BEPA 2010: 16).
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New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research - New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research
2015Co-Authors: Alex Nicholls, Julie Simon, Madeleine GabrielAbstract:This book is open access under a CC BY license. Foreword: The Study of Social Innovation - Theory, Practice and Progress Geoff Mulgan Introduction: Dimensions of Social Innovation Alex Nicholls Julie Simon Madeleine Gabriel PART I: RESEARCHING Social Innovation 1. Social Innovations as Drivers of Social Change - Exploring Tarde's Contribution to Social Innovation Theory Building Jurgen Howaldt Ralf Kopp Michael Schwarz 2. At the Root of Change: The History of Social Innovation Katharine McGowan Frances Westley 3. A Relational Database to Understand Social Innovation and its Impact on Social Transformation Marie J. Bouchard Catherine Trudelle Louise Briand Juan-Luis Klein Benoit Levesque David Longtin Mathieu Pelletier PART II: BLURRING BOUNDARIES AND RECONFIGURING RELATIONS 4. Social Innovation. Redesigning the Welfare Diamond Jane Jenson 5. Social Innovation for Social Cohesion Adalbert Evers Benjamin Ewert 6. Collaborative Services in Informal Settlements: Social Innovation in a Pacified Favela in Rio de Janeiro Carla Cipolla Patricia Melo Ezio Manzini PART III: PRODUCING Social Innovation THROUGH NEW FORMS OF COLLABORATION 7. Enhancing Public Innovation through Collaboration, Leadership and New Public Governance Eva Sorensen Jacob Torfing 8. Seoul City's Social Innovation Strategy: New Models of Communication to Strengthen Citizen Engagement Jungwon Kim Sojung Rim Sunkyung Han Ahyoung Park 9. Can Collective Intelligence Produce Social Innovation? Ola Tjornbo 10. The Usefulness of Networks: a Study of Social Innovation in India Lina Sonne Conclusion: The Task of the Social Innovation Movement Roberto Mangabeira Unger
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new frontiers in Social Innovation research
2015Co-Authors: Alex Nicholls, Julie Simon, Madeleine GabrielAbstract:This book is open access under a CC BY license. Foreword: The Study of Social Innovation - Theory, Practice and Progress Geoff Mulgan Introduction: Dimensions of Social Innovation Alex Nicholls Julie Simon Madeleine Gabriel PART I: RESEARCHING Social Innovation 1. Social Innovations as Drivers of Social Change - Exploring Tarde's Contribution to Social Innovation Theory Building Jurgen Howaldt Ralf Kopp Michael Schwarz 2. At the Root of Change: The History of Social Innovation Katharine McGowan Frances Westley 3. A Relational Database to Understand Social Innovation and its Impact on Social Transformation Marie J. Bouchard Catherine Trudelle Louise Briand Juan-Luis Klein Benoit Levesque David Longtin Mathieu Pelletier PART II: BLURRING BOUNDARIES AND RECONFIGURING RELATIONS 4. Social Innovation. Redesigning the Welfare Diamond Jane Jenson 5. Social Innovation for Social Cohesion Adalbert Evers Benjamin Ewert 6. Collaborative Services in Informal Settlements: Social Innovation in a Pacified Favela in Rio de Janeiro Carla Cipolla Patricia Melo Ezio Manzini PART III: PRODUCING Social Innovation THROUGH NEW FORMS OF COLLABORATION 7. Enhancing Public Innovation through Collaboration, Leadership and New Public Governance Eva Sorensen Jacob Torfing 8. Seoul City's Social Innovation Strategy: New Models of Communication to Strengthen Citizen Engagement Jungwon Kim Sojung Rim Sunkyung Han Ahyoung Park 9. Can Collective Intelligence Produce Social Innovation? Ola Tjornbo 10. The Usefulness of Networks: a Study of Social Innovation in India Lina Sonne Conclusion: The Task of the Social Innovation Movement Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Daniel Edmiston - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Innovation Policy in the European Union
Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation, 2019Co-Authors: Alex Nicholls, Daniel EdmistonAbstract:This chapter provides a detailed overview of the development of Social Innovation policy in the European Union. It makes an important analytical distinction between policy for Social Innovation and policy as Social Innovation. In the context of these two policy agendas, not only has Social Innovation been understood as a means to achieve an end in this regard, it has also been recognized as an end in itself. These agendas have been advocated by the European Commission and across various individual states. This chapter establishes how the concept of Social Innovation has been understood, applied, and managed in pan-European policy agendas over recent years. It examines the key policy agendas from the perspective of institutions, cognitive frames, and networks: the Europe 2020 strategy (2010–20), the Social Business Initiative and the Social Investment Package.
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Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation - Social Innovation Policy
Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation, 2019Co-Authors: Nadia Von Jacobi, Daniel Edmiston, Alex Nicholls, Attila Havas, Klaus Kubeczko, György Molnár, Georg Mildenberger, Gudrun SchimpfAbstract:This chapter addresses key issues that public policy seeking to support Social Innovation faces. Combining theoretical insights of the Extended Social Grid Model with empirical results obtained from EU policy surveys and case studies, it identifies key policy implications and recommendations. It first introduces key notions for Social Innovation policy, including the multifaceted landscape into which support is inserted; the necessity to recognize its political character; to what extent insights from business Innovation studies can be useful; and why successful support of Social Innovation must imply institutional change. The chapter then outlines a series of recurrent policy dilemmas such as whether horizontal support should be preferred; the trade-off between degree and costs of marginalization that wish to be targeted; the difficulty to promote a capability to associate; and how the subsidiarity principle may clash against the need to overcome marginalizing processes.
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Social Innovation Policy in the European Union
Policy Design in the European Union, 2018Co-Authors: Alex Nicholls, Daniel EdmistonAbstract:In recent years, Social Innovation has become an increasingly prominent concept employed by political leaders and administrations across the world. In 2003, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) supported a range of initiatives and research to promote inclusive entrepreneurship and ‘improve Social cohesion through the identification and dissemination of local Innovations’. In 2009, President Barack Obama established the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation to support cross-sectoral, bottom-up solutions to Social problems and challenges in the USA. In Europe, Social Innovation has proved to be equally conspicuous in pan-European strategies and domestic policies. Innovation has been of enduring interest and concern for European Union (EU) policy for many years (Borzaga and Bodini 2014), but since the late 1990s Social Innovation in particular has captured the political interest of supranational organisations and domestic actors (Pol and Ville 2009; Grisolia and Ferragina 2015). In the EU, Social Innovation has been posited as a solution to both old and new Social risks at a time of heightened uncertainty and pressure on public administrations and finances (Bonoli 2005; OECD 2011; Sinclair and Baglioni 2014). It seems clear that this considerable interest in Social Innovation has been intimately linked to the Great Recession, structural unemployment and the Social challenges arising as a result (European Commission 2014a). Indeed, a key feature of the Europe 2020 strategy was to facilitate and embed Social Innovation across Europe to ‘deliver the kind of inclusive and sustainable Social market economy we all want to live in’ (BEPA 2010: 16).
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tackling marginalisation through Social Innovation examining the eu Social Innovation policy agenda from a capabilities perspective
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2017Co-Authors: Nadia Von Jacobi, Daniel Edmiston, Rafael ZieglerAbstract:This paper demonstrates that the capabilities approach offers a number of conceptual and evaluative benefits for understanding Social Innovation and—in particular, its capacity to tackle marginalisation. Focusing on the substantive freedoms and achieved functionings of individuals introduces a multidimensional, plural appreciation of disadvantage, but also of the strategies to overcome it. In light of this, and the institutional embeddedness of marginalisation, effective Social Innovation capable of tackling marginalisation depends on (a) the participation of marginalised individuals in (b) a process that addresses the Social structuration of their disadvantage. In spite of the high-level ideals endorsed by the European Union (EU), Social Innovation tends to be supported through EU policy instruments as a means towards the maintenance of prevailing institutions, networks and cognitive ends. This belies the transformative potential of Social Innovation emphasised in EU policy documentation and neglects the Social structuration processes from which Social needs and societal challenges arise. One strategy of displacing institutional dominance is to incorporate groups marginalised from multiple institutional and cognitive centres into the policy design and implementation process. This incorporates multiple value sets into the policy-making process to promote Social Innovation that is grounded in the doings and beings that all individuals have reason to value.
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tackling marginalisation through Social Innovation examining the eu Social Innovation policy agenda from a capabilities perspective
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2017Co-Authors: Nadia Von Jacobi, Daniel Edmiston, Rafael ZieglerAbstract:This paper demonstrates that the capabilities approach offers a number of conceptual and evaluative benefits for understanding Social Innovation and—in particular, its capacity to tackle marginalisation. Focusing on the substantive freedoms and achieved functionings of individuals introduces a multidimensional, plural appreciation of disadvantage, but also of the strategies to overcome it. In light of this, and the institutional embeddedness of marginalisation, effective Social Innovation capable of tackling marginalisation depends on (a) the participation of marginalised individuals in (b) a process that addresses the Social structuration of their disadvantage. In spite of the high-level ideals endorsed by the European Union (EU), Social Innovation tends to be supported through EU policy instruments as a means towards the maintenance of prevailing institutions, networks and cognitive ends. This belies the transformative potential of Social Innovation emphasised in EU policy documentation and neglects the Social structuration processes from which Social needs and societal challenges arise. One strategy of displacing institutional dominance is to incorporate groups marginalised from multiple institutional and cognitive centres into the policy design and implementation process. This incorporates multiple value sets into the policy-making process to promote Social Innovation that is grounded in the doings and beings that all individuals have reason to value.
Rafael Ziegler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Innovation and Agency
Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation, 2019Co-Authors: Nadia Von Jacobi, Rafael Ziegler, Enrica Chiappero-martinetti, Martijn Van Der Linden, Cees Van BeersAbstract:This chapter provides empirical insights of agency and empowerment in Social Innovation across Europe. We apply portions of the theoretical framework developed in CrESSI to investigate whether Social Innovation is potentially able to reduce the marginalization of specific groups. We depart from the hypothesis that Social Innovation enhances participants’ agency and test this through the collection of primary data. Our investigation is based on a mixed-method strategy combining qualitative interviews with Social innovators, focus groups, and surveys to which beneficiaries and control groups respond. The case studies comprise Solidarity Purchasing Groups in Italy, interest communities that fight for decentralized drinking-water supply and wastewater removal in Germany, and complementary currencies in The Netherlands. Our results suggest that Social Innovation produces mainly intangible effects by modifying knowledge and Social ties, which tend to improve the agency of participants.
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Social Innovation as a collaborative concept
Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 2017Co-Authors: Rafael ZieglerAbstract:The rise of Social Innovation expresses a discontent with Innovation as we know it, and its ability to deliver just and sustainable outcomes. Yet, Social Innovation is also notoriously vague as a concept, thereby putting into doubt whether the concept offers any real improvements or alternatives. This paper issues an invitation to think about Social Innovation as a collaborative concept. The conceptual framework shows collaboration, rather than contestation, to offer a space for the working together of different perspectives and actors. The collaborative concept frame welcomes and seeks to explain a diversity of uses. Singling out key features of Social Innovation as a collaborative concept, it seeks to contribute to an emerging practice that makes different contributions part of a progressive conversation about Social Innovation, the evaluative ideas associated with it and the evidence from policies and projects. Identifying transformative, taxonomical and transitional–sceptical uses of Social Innovation...
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Creating (Economic) Space for Social Innovation
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2017Co-Authors: Rafael Ziegler, György Molnár, Enrica Chiappero-martinetti, Nadia Von JacobiAbstract:1: Alex Nicholls and Rafael Ziegler: The Extended Social Grid Model Part One 2: Risto Heiskala: Social Innovation, Power, and Marginalization 3: Rafael Ziegler and Nadia von Jacobi: Creating Fair (Economic) Space for Social Innovation? A Capabilities Perspective 4: Georg Mildenberger, Gudrun-Christine Schimpf, Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, and Nadia von Jacobi: Empirical Approaches to Social Innovation Part Two 5: Gudrun-Christine Schimpf, Georg Mildenberger, Susanne Giesecke, and Attila Havas: Trajectories of Social Innovation: Housing for All? 6: Gudrun-Christine Schimpf and Rafael Ziegler: Trajectories of Social Innovation: Water For All? 7: Gyoergy Molnar and Attila Havas: Trajectories of Social Innovation: Tackling Marginalisation with a Complex Approach 8: Martijn Jeroen van der Linden: Trajectories of Social Innovation: Education 9: Lara Maestripieri: Creating Alternative Economic Spaces. The Socially Innovative Practices of Solidarity Purchasing Groups 10: Nadia von Jacobi, Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, Rafael Ziegler, Martijn van der Linden and Cees van Beers: Social Innovation and Agency 11: Alex Nicholls and Daniel Edmiston: Social Innovation Policy in the European Union 12: Alex Nicholls and Daniel Edmiston: Public Policy As Social Innovation: Social Impact Bonds Part Three 13: Rafael Ziegler, Alex Nicholls, Jari Aro, Cees van Beers, Enrica Chiappero-Marinetti, Daniel Edmiston, Attila Havas, Risto Heiskala, Nadia von Jacobi, Klaus Kubczenko, Martijn Jeroen van der Lin den , Lara Maestripieri, Georg Mildenberger, Gyoergy Molnar, and Gudrun-Christine Schimpf: The Extended Social Grid Model Revisited 14: C.W.M. (Ro) Naastepad: Capital and Capacities: Using Capital to Create Economic Space for Capacities 15: Alex Nicholls, Nadia von Jacobi, Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, and Georg Mildenberger: The Impact of Social Innovation 16: Nadia von Jacobi, Alex Nicholls, Daniel Edmiston, Attila Havas, Klaus Kubeczko, Gyoergy Molnar, Georg Mildenberger, and Gudrun Schimpf: Social Innovation Policy
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tackling marginalisation through Social Innovation examining the eu Social Innovation policy agenda from a capabilities perspective
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2017Co-Authors: Nadia Von Jacobi, Daniel Edmiston, Rafael ZieglerAbstract:This paper demonstrates that the capabilities approach offers a number of conceptual and evaluative benefits for understanding Social Innovation and—in particular, its capacity to tackle marginalisation. Focusing on the substantive freedoms and achieved functionings of individuals introduces a multidimensional, plural appreciation of disadvantage, but also of the strategies to overcome it. In light of this, and the institutional embeddedness of marginalisation, effective Social Innovation capable of tackling marginalisation depends on (a) the participation of marginalised individuals in (b) a process that addresses the Social structuration of their disadvantage. In spite of the high-level ideals endorsed by the European Union (EU), Social Innovation tends to be supported through EU policy instruments as a means towards the maintenance of prevailing institutions, networks and cognitive ends. This belies the transformative potential of Social Innovation emphasised in EU policy documentation and neglects the Social structuration processes from which Social needs and societal challenges arise. One strategy of displacing institutional dominance is to incorporate groups marginalised from multiple institutional and cognitive centres into the policy design and implementation process. This incorporates multiple value sets into the policy-making process to promote Social Innovation that is grounded in the doings and beings that all individuals have reason to value.
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tackling marginalisation through Social Innovation examining the eu Social Innovation policy agenda from a capabilities perspective
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2017Co-Authors: Nadia Von Jacobi, Daniel Edmiston, Rafael ZieglerAbstract:This paper demonstrates that the capabilities approach offers a number of conceptual and evaluative benefits for understanding Social Innovation and—in particular, its capacity to tackle marginalisation. Focusing on the substantive freedoms and achieved functionings of individuals introduces a multidimensional, plural appreciation of disadvantage, but also of the strategies to overcome it. In light of this, and the institutional embeddedness of marginalisation, effective Social Innovation capable of tackling marginalisation depends on (a) the participation of marginalised individuals in (b) a process that addresses the Social structuration of their disadvantage. In spite of the high-level ideals endorsed by the European Union (EU), Social Innovation tends to be supported through EU policy instruments as a means towards the maintenance of prevailing institutions, networks and cognitive ends. This belies the transformative potential of Social Innovation emphasised in EU policy documentation and neglects the Social structuration processes from which Social needs and societal challenges arise. One strategy of displacing institutional dominance is to incorporate groups marginalised from multiple institutional and cognitive centres into the policy design and implementation process. This incorporates multiple value sets into the policy-making process to promote Social Innovation that is grounded in the doings and beings that all individuals have reason to value.
Luis Rubalcaba - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Understanding Social Innovation in services industries
Industry and Innovation, 2017Co-Authors: Faïz Gallouj, Marja Toivonen, Luis Rubalcaba, Paul WindrumAbstract:This paper puts forward a framework for understanding the relationship between service industries and Social Innovation. These are two, previously disconnected research areas. The paper explores ways in which Innovation in services is increasingly becoming one of Social Innovation (in terms of Social goals, Social means, Social roles and multi-agent provision) and how Social Innovation can be understood from a service Innovation perspective. A taxonomy is proposed based on the mix between Innovation nature and the locus of co-production. The paper additionally puts forward a theoretical framework for understanding Social Innovation in services, where the co-creation of Innovation is the result of an interaction of competences and preferences of multiple providers, users/citizens, and policy makers. This provides the basis for a discussion of key avenues for future research in theory, measurement, organisation, appropriation, performance measurement, and public policy. This provides a context for the papers presented in this special issue.
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Social Innovation research: An emerging area of Innovation studies?
Research Policy, 2016Co-Authors: Robert P. Van Der Have, Luis RubalcabaAbstract:While the adoption of Social Innovation (SI) in the governance and policy domain has fueled a rapidly expanding scholarly literature, this field has become characterized by conceptual ambiguity and a diversity of definitions and research settings. This present situation inhibits the integration of findings. This paper traces the content, scope and relatively short history of modern Social Innovation research across disciplines by applying network and bibliometric analyses, and explores their relevance to Innovation studies. Based on data from 172 publications, we analyze scholarly works that directly address the Social Innovation topic, allowing us to identify the precedence, dynamics and the current map of Social Innovation research as an emerging field of study. Our analysis suggests that the SI field is grounded in four distinct intellectual communities arising through a somewhat organized diffusion process: 1) Community Psychology; 2) Creativity research; 3) Social and societal challenges; 4) Local development. The interest of SI in the areas of management and entrepreneurship is only very recent and is currently reflected within existing communities. We forge conceptual bridges between the two (currently very separate) domains of Social Innovation and Innovation studies, and the implications of our finding for further research and policy are also discussed.
Rene Wintjes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Innovation Regime: an integrated approach to measure Social Innovation
European Planning Studies, 2019Co-Authors: Alfonso Unceta, Alvaro Luna, Javier Castro, Rene WintjesAbstract:This paper is focussed on the development of an exploratory integrated perspective to understand and measure Social Innovation Ecosystems through the notion of Social Innovation Regime. This concept builds upon the interrelation between socioeconomic contexts of SI (meso–macro levels) and intra/inter-organizational dynamics (micro level), where SIs are developing. That is to say, the ways in which the Social economy and Social organizations are connected to a broader SI Ecosystem where the socioeconomic contexts surrounding National Welfare Regime try to answer to the policy and market failures that have an impact on regional vulnerability rates. This article suggests the hypothesis that there is an interrelation between the strength of Welfare Regimes and Social Innovation Ecosystems, at a time where Social Policies and Welfare States all over the world are weakened or in crisis, opening the door to Social Innovation. This paper describes this connection through the notion of Social Innovation Regime, proposing an interesting exploratory framework to explore the socio-structural factors through which a country or region presents a set of vulnerabilities which can transform into unattended Social problems. Finally, this analysis can contribute to the methodologies on SI measurement and impact by determining the regional vulnerability rate – Social, economic, institutional, environmental – inside welfare regimes.
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Systemising Social Innovation initiatives and their regional context in Europe
2019Co-Authors: Rene Wintjes, Nordine Es-sadki, Ad NottenAbstract:Social Innovation can be seen as new combinations of Social, economic and political capital (resources and capabilities)1. In Social Innovation initiatives actors with different capabilities cooperate and function as systems of Innovation. The various actors (from the Social, economic and/or political domain) contribute and benefit in different tangible and intangible ways. As producers and users of solutions for societal problems they co-create value for society. The paper aims for insights in the economic outcomes of Social Innovation. We argue that Social Innovation can be seen as an investment, rather than a cost. For 55 Social Innovation initiatives across Europe we identify economic outcomes for the various actors, and the sustainability of the initiative. Since Social Innovation is context-dependent, and because the regional situation concerning Social Innovation differs across the EU, we also systemise the regional context in which the Social Innovation initiatives have emerged. The results support the idea that Social Innovation generates economic as well as complementary Social benefits. Four types of regional systems of Social Innovation can be identified. It helps explain why regions as different contexts induce different Social Innovation initiatives and economic outcomes.
