The Loop, the Lens, and the Lesson: Using Resilience Theory to Examine Public Policy and Social Innovation

Michele-Lee Moore, Frances R. Westley, Ola Tjornbo and Carin Holroyd

Chapter 3 in Social Innovation, 2012, pp 89-113 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The role of social innovation and social entrepreneurship in addressing complex problems has increasingly gained traction in policy-making circles with policy practitioners’ interest piqued about how governments may best support such innovations (e.g. PRI, 2010). Various governments are attempting to support social innovation through a variety of means. For instance, the Office of Civil Society in the UK and the Australian Centre for Social Innovation are recent attempts by these national governments formally to institutionalize the fostering of social entrepreneurs and social enterprises. Other national governments have chosen simply to promote the ‘production’ side of innovation, by funding research and development, specifically for the technology sectors (Nelson, 1993). But while there is a growing body of grey literature that mirrors policy practitioners’ own interest in this field (e.g. Leadbeater, 2007), scholarship within the social innovation and social entrepreneurship community has largely neglected the role of public policy in supporting or hindering social innovation (for an exception, see Chapman et al., 2007).

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneur; Operative Movement; Social Innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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