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SOCIAL INNOVATION: TOWARDS A NEW INNOVATION PARADIGM.
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RAM. Mackenzie Management Review / RAM. Revista de Administração Mackenzie . Nov-Dec2016, Vol. 17 Issue 6, p20-44. 25p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Purpose: Against the backdrop of clear paradoxes and confusion in prevailing innovation policies, the contours of a new innovation paradigm, as elaborated in this paper, are becoming visible and causing social innovation to grow in importance. Originality/gap/relevance/implications: However, innovation research is still lacking sustained and systematic analysis of social innovation, its theories, characteristics, and impacts. The purpose of this paper is to focus on a theoretically sound concept of social innovation as a precondition for an integrated theory of socio-technological innovation in which social innovation is more than an appendage of technological innovation. Key methodological aspects: The paper presents first empirical results of the global research project "SI-DRIVE: Social Innovation - Driving Force of Social Change" and introduces key findings of a global mapping of social innovation initiatives. This quantitative mapping is based upon 1.005 social innovation initiatives. Summary of key results: The mapping underlines the broad range of actors involved in the mapped initiatives and thereby confirms the need for a crosssectoral concept of social innovation. It reveals a high diversity of social needs and societal challenges addressed by the initiatives as well as a high dependency on networks. The results also show that 90% of the initiatives are scaling. Key considerations/conclusions: Finally, on the basis of these empirical results, a recourse to Gabriel Tarde's social theory allows us to widen a perspective which was narrowed to economic and technological innovations by Schumpeter and after him by the sociology of technology, and to include social innovations in all their diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15186776
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- RAM. Mackenzie Management Review / RAM. Revista de Administração Mackenzie
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 121051347
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-69712016/administracao.v17n6p20-44