 Role of Social Innovation in Socioeconomic Development in Morocco. Case Studies of Socially Innovative AssociationsYoussef Nafil and
Abdellatif Bouazza
Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research, 2019, vol. 18, issue 2, 73-92 Abstract: Innovation has always been a concept related to science and technology, particularly in the service of economic performance in companies. However, any innovation, even scientific or technological, has a social character that has become more pronounced over the decades as innovation has also become capable of addressing social and environmental challenges. This process of « Socialization» of innovation gave rise to Social Innovation from the 1970s onwards in an environment marked by economic crises and new social demands, in order to find new ways (goods, services, ideas…) to satisfy social needs unmet by the market and/ or the State for the benefit of disadvantaged individuals and groups. In Morocco, things are not different. The country is currently suffering from serious problems at all levels, which gave birth to several demands and citizen movements that threaten its stability and social cohesion. As a result, it is a question of using new alternative models of territorial development and basing them on the principles and practices of Social Innovation. On this point, we propose in this paper to investigate the role that Social Innovation plays in socio-economic development in Morocco, based on an exploration of the existing literature (whose thinness and dispersion about our subject matter will be shown), followed by the production of four case studies of associations recognized for their real contribution to Social Innovation in Morocco in key social sectors: education, care for people with special needs, child protection and protection of single mothers. Through semi-structured interviews with directors in the four associations as well as other means (documentary analysis, follow-up questions), we collected primary and secondary data that we analyzed according to a thematic method, in order to understand the contribution of Social Innovation to socio-economic development in Morocco, this contribution which is based on 1. The contributions of Social Innovation to address the unmet social needs of disadvantaged individuals and groups (place occupied by Social Innovation in initiatives and actions undertaken to meet these needs, social impact, challenges faced), which may or may not confirm the existence of Social Innovation in Morocco, and 2. The internal and external environment of Social Innovation (How do social innovators in Morocco participate in the dynamics of socio-economic development? With what means? What difficulties? What are their profiles? Their business model?). Keywords: Morocco; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Impact; Social Innovation; Socioeconomic Development. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:rse:wpaper:v:18:y:2019:i:2:p:73-92 Access Statistics for this article Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research is currently edited by Ruxandra Vasilescu More articles in Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research from Pro Global Science Association Contact information at EDIRC. |
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