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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This insightful
Research Agenda offers unique perspectives into the different
strands of social innovation research, covering the history and
theory of this ever-growing research field. Chapters show the range
and depth of the social advances that characterize this vibrant and
contested subject, and analyse the strong increase in political and
public interest in social innovation. Exploring the potential
influence of social innovation on important social factors, the
Research Agenda looks at education, poverty reduction,
environmental policies, and health and social care. Contributors
examine the approaches and successful initiatives that illustrate
the strengths of social innovations in manifold areas and in
establishing sustainable patterns of consumption, while coping with
demographic change. Possible future research pathways are outlined
and new topics such as social innovation ecosystems, epistemic
diversities and sustainable development are examined in detail.
This discerning and innovative Research Agenda will be an ideal
read for social innovation researchers, policy-makers and
innovation-policy stakeholders. It will be a welcome addition to
the literature for innovation practitioners and entrepreneurs
looking for theoretical insights into this influential subject.
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)
Netzwerke, Kooperationen und Verbunde gewinnen zunehmend an
Bedeutung, wenn es um die Sicherung des Unternehmenserfolgs und die
Zukunftsfahigkeit von Unternehmen geht. Die Grundung von
Kooperationen stellt an Unternehmen allerdings ungewohnte
Anforderungen, die haufig Probleme bereiten. In dem Handbuch
beschreiben erfahrene Netzwerkmanager und -betreuer die Grundlagen
erfolgreichen Kooperierens und geben Einblicke in die Praxis
branchen- und themenbezogener Kooperationen. Der Band enthalt
Checklisten sowie einen ausfuhrlichen Serviceteil."
Innovationen in Kooperativen Dienstleistungssystemen - so unsere
These - lassen sich kaum noch trennscharf in technologische und
soziale Innovationen unterteilen. Kooperative
Dienstleistungssysteme verweisen auf neue Formen der menschlichen
Zusammenarbeit, die gemeinsame Interessen oder Problemstell- gen
bearbeiten, und die dafur neue Technologien einsetzen und
weiterent- ckeln, um die eigenen Kooperationsprozesse zu
unterstutzen. Naturlich haben sich technische Innovationen und
soziale Veranderungen schon immer wechselseitig beeinflusst.
Gleichwohl scheint sich das Verhaltnis von technologischer und
sozialer Innovation heute in neuer Form zu prasent- ren. Die wohl
bemerkenswertesten Veranderungen lassen sich gegenwartig dort
ablesen, wo klassische Organisations- bzw. Systemgrenzen
verschwimmen und wo wir so etwas wie kundenbasierte
Innovationsprozesse ( user driven innova- on') beobachten. Die
aktive Einbeziehung bzw. das Eindringen von Kunden, Burgern,
Betroffenen oder Patienten in vormals abgeschottete Innovationssys-
me verweist auf tiefgreifende Verschiebungen in den Strukturen, wie
und wo Innovationen entstehen. Naturlich gibt es auch Grenzen: Ein
Verkehrsflugzeug lasst sich nicht uber Open Innovation' entwickeln
und produzieren. Denn wo Innovationen erst durch kapitalintensive
Strukturen ermoglicht werden, finden Innovationen meist im Umfeld
von abgrenzbaren Institutionen und Organisationen statt. Wo Inno-
tionen aber in erster Linie durch wissensintensive Strukturen
ermoglicht werden, konnen sich neue Formen der menschlichen
Zusammenarbeit herausbilden, fur deren Beschreibung wir den Begriff
des Kooperativen Dienstleistungssystems vorschlagen."
Die Autoren dokumentieren die zentralen Ergebnisse des vom
Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) geforderten
Forschungsprojektes cross company knowledge management (crosscomp).
Ziel war die Erforschung und Erprobung neuer Konzepte und Methoden
der Wissensgenerierung in organisationsubergreifenden
Kooperationsnetzwerken entlang der Wertschopfungskette Wissen. Im
Mittelpunkt stehen kleine und mittelgrosse
Dienstleistungsunternehmen im Bereich Organisationsberatung und
Multimedia/IT."
Wissenschaftler und Praktiker beschreiben die Chancen und Probleme
der Arbeit
von Netzwerken und Kooperationsverbunden im Hinblick auf regionale
und
betriebliche Innovationsprozesse."
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