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In order to tackle complex challenges we need collaboration across sectors (between state and society) as well as between ministries and administrative levels (e.g. often innovative initiatives are local, but the federal level has littles possibilities to empower their creativity and learn from them). Often gov.labs impact just one ministry or administrative level, and has no mandate to transform the political system as such. Do you know of any successful gov.lab in this regard?
Thanks and best wishes, Patrizia Nanz
What the challenges and future agenda toward implementing social innovation for young entrepreneur ?
I am hoping to conducts research related to corporate social innovation and having some doubts about what is the theory that is this based on.
Social Innovation courses are often declined in a way that is often attached to social entrepreneurship or design methods (i.e. theory of change). Can you suggest any material on how to draw a course for MSc students combining social innovation theories/methodologies with territorial development policy and/or urban studies?
is this journal okay
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) .
Curious about the idea, that philanthropically-minded entrepreneurs can help to diffuse/institutionalize social innovation due to their belonging to at least two matured fields of business and philantrophy, bridging multiple institutional logics, creating boundary spanning networks and pushing entrepreneurial experimentalism through patient philanthropic capital.
What do you think?
I am interested in studying the experiences and motivations for philanthropy in Kenya by HNWIs. However, I would like my research questions to be grounded from gaps in theory and empirical research in philanthropy and social entrepreneurship. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Dear all,
I am Valentina Cattivelli and I am a guest editor at Sustainability (IF 2.5).
With this, I would like to invite you to submit a paper within a special issue "Social farming for Social innovation and viability in rural areas".
This special issue will contribute to the current debate on the green care movement, presenting some innovative solutions and business models to apply social farming as an innovative diversification strategy.
The Issue will focus on the impact that social farming activities directly or indirectly have on the social-ecological transformation when fostering environmental knowledge building as well as well-being in and with nature. At the same time, it will evidence how social farming strengthens social capital in rural areas through the dissemination of culture and traditions in agriculture, the provision of social services, and the integration of people at risk of isolation.
Additionally, the Issue will present applicable governance and legal framework strategies from their countries that provide legal certainty, regulate the quality of services, and ensure financial viability.
Finally, it will investigate how social farming contributes to shifting agricultural activities from purely primary production towards service delivery. This extension of multifunctional farming enables new income opportunities to avoid farm abandonment and to counteract the typical phenomenon of de-growth, which rural areas are dealing with: demographic and agro-structural changes, brain drain, unemployment, vacant houses, or lacking services of general interest.
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Thank you
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if we want to measure social innovation in a survey in different villages in an area, is it better to consider Statistical population all the people in that area or just the innovators and initiatives in the area?
I'm trying to design a research for social innovation. Although, I'm not sure if I can find social innovation examples there or better say find robust examples in all of villages in the area. what's your suggestions for my research question(s)?
I was told I can apply a cluster analysis and investigate the villages conditions according to fostering factors of social innovation. Is it a good idea?
I'm trying to design a research for social innovation. Although, I'm not sure if I can find social innovation examples there or better say find robust examples in all of villages in the area. what's your suggestions for my research question(s)?
I was told I can apply a cluster analysis and investigate the villages conditions according to fostering factors of social innovation. Is it a good idea?
As the Guest Editor of the special issue of the flagship publication of IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Computer, on "The Next Wave of Machine Learning Applications," I invite submissions of path-breaking uses of ML. Details and CFP below.
Keywords: Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Biotech, Quantum Computing, Social Innovation
Please also let me know if you wish to serve as a reviewer for this special issue.
The studies carried out by different scholars show that, in both Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), innovation processes, in their scientific and technological context, are ineffective. Therefore, it is difficult to create an appropriate environment for the development of new and better products and services in such a way that the whole helps the social and economic growth of these countries (de la Torre, 2014; Lederman et.al. 2014, CAF, 2013, World Bank, 2014). Despite some scholars describe the problem as systemic, is Wicked Problem (Rittel, 1973) an adequate framework to formulate these difficulties?
What are the best sources for analyzing social innovation? I mean journal articles, papers, research reports, etc, the "must reads".
Thanks for your help!
Do you know any papers discussing the the role of AI in social innovations? I'm also interested in the best practices in this field. I intend to write a literature review. Thanks for your contributions in advance.
Hi everyone!
I would like to send a qualitative paper on social innovation and ethics to a journal, but I do not know which ones are best. Could you give me a help?
Thanks in advance.
Cécile
What is the difference or similarities in the levels of participation and appropiation of communities between inclusive innovation and social innovation?
I have found a number of renditions of the "Social Business Model Canvas", with two in particular that seem to be the "original". One site proposes that the model was created by the Social Innovation Lab. The other proposes it was created by the Young Foundation. Both seem to have come to fruition in 2013. What I am not able to find is the first published SBMC. Can anyone clarify this?
I’m currently involved in a research project that is related to Highly Integrative Questions (HIQ’s).
To define the landscape of those "next level client questions" we initiated a research:
How to define HIQ’s?
How to approach HIQ's?
What are cases that relate to HIQ’s?
How can we learn from those cases?
What kind of guidance and facilitation are needed in the process?
Some buzzwords: Complexity Theory, Integrative Thinking, Social Innovations
This topic about "highly integrative questions" is introduced by prof. Stephan Janssen, who speaks about 'The Smogfree City’ as the ultimate new desire of metropoles like Shanghai.
In our recent research we want to find out what are these highly integrative questions? What do we need to be good at to be really helpful with those questions? And how do we get to the table?
Any good articles,studies or other resources in mind that could help in my research?
Dear all,
Before talking about Social Return on Investment (SROI) which is due to the whole operation of the social enterprise, let´s start by analyzing the first steps, the very first investments. My last questions in researchgate make me think about the action of social entrepreneurs and I received helpful comments about the question relating the participation of the poor in the process of social innovation. Now, this one is important for nascent social entrepreneurs and for the school of thought (EMES: enterprises owned by the poor, or social and solidarity-based enterprises,must innovate to reach the point of social entrepreneurs).
I mention Social Entrepreneurs to present the top-down approach; NGO and government fall into this group, so I welcome any paper about this fact and especially I would like to see some in depth analysis of the start-up process as suggested by:
- Gibb & Ritchie (Understanding the Process of Starting Small Businesses,1982): 1): Motivation & Determination, 2): Idea & Market, 3): Resource & 4): Ability;
- Helen Haugh: (Community-Led Social Venture Creation, 2007): (1) opportunity identification, (2) idea articulation, (3) idea ownership, (4) stakeholder mobilization, (5) opportunity exploitation, and (6) stakeholder reflection
Thank you
Considering the concept of CSI as "Corporate Social Innovation is a strategy that combines a unique set of corporate assets (innovation capacities, marketing skills, managerial acumen, employee engagement, scale, etc.) in collaboration with the assets of other sectors to co-create breakthrough solutions to complex economic, social, and environmental issues that impact the sustainability of both business and society."(KISER, 2014) Some foundations develop social initiatives. Can we consider foundations as a corporate that fits the CSI concept?
I am studying the promotion of Social Innovation in Latin America as a enabler of social inclusion and the consequently decrease of urban violence.
It is clear when social innovation gives step to novel idea, it can be transformed to goal, plan, program and project but what about this idea (Where, Who, When). Social innovation is one of the main and most promising way to rebuild community bonds, the poorest and marginalized people can benefit it when it is designed by an outsider (government, NGO, private enterprise, social entrepreneur), but the probability of success increase when the beneficiaries participate in the design of social innovation.
My question is related to remote rural area in developing countries, where live the poorest people. Probably they never had seen or heard about what is good living conditions or accepted as good. Many researchers (Mulgan, 2006; Von Jacobi et al, 2017) argue that the poor know about how to solve their problems; can we expect to this kind of poor to part of the process of social innovation? Or it is possible to talk about level of participation as the top-down approach does?
Following the logic of participation, it looks like a failure from the donors, NGO, government who make the plan and project and ask the poor to join them. Barlett (2007) is on the side to let the people plan for themselves. How could this happen when they lack skills,
I found papers on gender socialization but I want specifically on occupation socialization for any innovation adoption.
We are conducting a Realist Review about this topic focused on the mechanisms involved in the conditionality of these schemes.
the term 'Inclusive' is increasingly added as a 'buzz word' to 'traditional types of innovation'. By contrast, there is a general assumption on the inclusivity of social innovations...
There is a social innovation model in India in the rehabilitation of the mentally ill through individual initiatives and community support. It is innovative due to the new relationship the community people involved in and the new ideas generated out of it. The researcher used grounded theory as methodology and if any international journals are interested in the original work please let me know.
Organisational Flexibility is lauded in Strategic Management and in Diversity / Inclusion Management, albeit for different reasons, how can both research streams be alinged to gain organisational effectiveness and social innovation?
The Culture of Inclusive Organizations displays flexibility, through reducing organisational barriers to allow a broader demographic to enter their confines (Schur et al., 2005).
The purpose of this question is to theoretically and empirically grasp the issue, how organizations become inclusive – with special regard to persons with disabilities (PWD) – and the potential limits to inclusion.
Theodorakopoulos and Budhwar (2015: 181, DOI: 10.1002/hrm) review prior work on disability diversity which suggested that 'organizational flexibility is an important factor in the successful inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace (Kulkarni and Lengnick-Hall, 2011; Wooten, 2008)',
Corporate Leadership and culture already had been identified as crucial factors in this regard (Schur et al., 2005). Also in strategic management, culture has been discussed as a source of organisational flexibility for some time. For example, Organisational effectiveness has been mapped using the exploitation/exploration dichotomy (March, 1991), relating it to learning (Crossan et al., 1999) and dimensions of organisational culture (Freiling and Fichtner, 2010).
A well-known definition of organisational culture regards it as a solution to the challenges of external adaptation and internal integration. An ethnographic study of an organisation (Svenson, 2014) mapped how organisational effectiveness was realized through practising flexibility, which pertained only to the external adaptation, thus securing competitive advantage. In internal integration there was rigidity with a culture of a revealed dogma (Schein, 2010).
With the challenges to become an inclusive organisation, there remains the question, how can be flexibility be introduced to the culture's internal Integration?
I am looking for strong, evidence-based studies or literature reviews on the Collective Impact approach to solving large-scale social problems. So far I am finding articles describing the approach which cite individual cases only.
In particular, I am interested in organizations and agencies from different sectors committing to a common agenda and tackling childhood health/nutrition-related issues--but any evidence-based information would be useful. Thanks.
I am working at the relationship between online learning/ICT and pedagogy, as implementing online learning concerns social innovation. In many casesit seems online learning is recording lectures and that is it. Now i am looking for ideas and resources to get more grip on these ideas. Who can help me out with literasture, articles, ideas, experiences etc. Thanks in advance.
I ask this question and try to propose some directions in my presentation for the Mass Customization Conference (Feb2014) http://www.slideshare.net/nicomorelli/scaling-up-social-innovation-services
This interesting question was formulated in the recent Social Frontiers Conference (UK, http://www.nesta.org.uk/assets/events/social_frontiers_the_next_edge_of_social_innovation_research)
I want to implement Hybrid MANET Routing protocol for emergency Group communication as a social innovative project. please share your ideas.
I have been focusing on the impact of scalability of social innovation and found out that: (1) there are very few franchises which appear as social businesses, and (2) the majority of exported social innovations do not work well in a cultural environment, which often blocks the process of scalability. Any suggested works in that vein?
Most of the studies on innovation I have come across relate to organization innovation but not much research focuses on individual innovation. Why? Could studies on individual innovation be reaching a saturation level? What are some of the potential areas for future research on individual innovation?
