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In recent years, social innovation has experienced a steep career.
Numerous national governments and large organisations like the
OECD, the European Commission and UNESCO have adopted the term.
Social innovation basically means that people adopt new social
practices in order to meet social needs in a different or more
effective way. Prominent examples of the past are the Red Cross and
the social welfare state or, at present, the internet 2.0
transforming our communication and cooperation schemes, requiring
new management concepts, even empowering social revolutions. The
traditional concept of innovation as successful new technological
products needs fundamental rethinking in a society marked by
knowledge and services, leading to a new and enriched paradigm of
innovation. There is multiple evidence that social innovation will
become of growing importance not only concerning social
integration, equal opportunities and dealing with the greenhouse
effects but also with regard to preserving and expanding the
innovative capacity of companies and societies. While political
authorities stress the social facets of social innovation, this
book also encompasses its societal and systemic dimensions,
collecting the scientific expertise of renowned experts and
scholars from all over the world. Based on the contributions of the
first world-wide science convention on social innovation from
September 2011 in Vienna, the book provides an overview of
scientific approaches to this still relatively new field. Forewords
by Agnes HUBERT (Member of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers
(BEPA) of the European Commission) and Antonella Noya (Senior
Policy Analyst at OECD, manager of the OECD LEED Forum on Social
Innovations)
In recent years, social innovation has experienced a steep career.
Numerous national governments and large organisations like the
OECD, the European Commission and UNESCO have adopted the term.
Social innovation basically means that people adopt new social
practices in order to meet social needs in a different or more
effective way. Prominent examples of the past are the Red Cross and
the social welfare state or, at present, the internet 2.0
transforming our communication and cooperation schemes, requiring
new management concepts, even empowering social revolutions. The
traditional concept of innovation as successful new technological
products needs fundamental rethinking in a society marked by
knowledge and services, leading to a new and enriched paradigm of
innovation. There is multiple evidence that social innovation will
become of growing importance not only concerning social
integration, equal opportunities and dealing with the greenhouse
effects but also with regard to preserving and expanding the
innovative capacity of companies and societies. While political
authorities stress the social facets of social innovation, this
book also encompasses its societal and systemic dimensions,
collecting the scientific expertise of renowned experts and
scholars from all over the world. Based on the contributions of the
first world-wide science convention on social innovation from
September 2011 in Vienna, the book provides an overview of
scientific approaches to this still relatively new field. Forewords
by Agnes HUBERT (Member of theBureau of European Policy Advisers
(BEPA) of the European Commission) and Antonella Noya (Senior
Policy Analyst at OECD, manager of the OECD LEED Forum on Social
Innovations)
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