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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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On Social Innovation Theory
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On social innovation theory
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Social Innovation in the Service Sector
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Social Innovation and Welfare
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Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
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Social innovation and social entrepreneurship
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Social Innovation at the Workplace
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About this book
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 Agnès 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)
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“The book covers a wide range of topics, like theoretical underpinnings for social innovation research, the importance of social innovation and the service sector or social innovation and entrepreneurship. … the book is a very valuable introduction into the area of social innovation and is very useful for everybody who wants to get up to date with this important area of innovation.” (Thomas W. Thurner, African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, January, 2014)Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Challenge Social Innovation
Book Subtitle: Potentials for Business, Social Entrepreneurship, Welfare and Civil Society
Editors: Hans-Werner Franz, Josef Hochgerner, Jürgen Howaldt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32879-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-32878-7Published: 12 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44442-5Published: 29 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-32879-4Published: 13 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 386
Topics: Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Social Policy, Innovation/Technology Management, Sociology, general