skip to main content
Language:
Search Limited to: Search Limited to: Resource type Show Results with: Show Results with: Search type Index

SOCIAL INNOVATION: TOWARDS A NEW INNOVATION PARADIGM

RAM. Revista de Administração Mackenzie, 2016-12, Vol.17 (6), p.20-44 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Mackenzie Presbyterian University Nov/Dec 2016 ;This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. ;ISSN: 1518-6776 ;ISSN: 1678-6971 ;EISSN: 1678-6971 ;DOI: 10.1590/1678-69712016/administracao.v17n6p20-44

Full text available

Citations Cited by
  • Title:
    SOCIAL INNOVATION: TOWARDS A NEW INNOVATION PARADIGM
  • Author: Howaldt, Jürgen ; Domanski, Dmitri ; Kaletka, Christoph
  • Subjects: Innovations ; International ; MANAGEMENT ; Paradigms ; Social change ; Studies
  • Is Part Of: RAM. Revista de Administração Mackenzie, 2016-12, Vol.17 (6), p.20-44
  • Description: 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
  • Publisher: São Paulo: Mackenzie Presbyterian University
  • Language: English;Portuguese
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1518-6776
    ISSN: 1678-6971
    EISSN: 1678-6971
    DOI: 10.1590/1678-69712016/administracao.v17n6p20-44
  • Source: SciELO
    ProQuest Central
    DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
Back to results list
INSPIRE LIBRARY - TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY (84-028) 37 755 057 Feedback
19 Nguyen Huu Tho St. Dist.7, HCM thuvien@tdtu.edu.vn

Copyright © 2017 INSPIRE LIBRARY - TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY

Searching Remote Databases, Please Wait