Phenomena of Social Innovation: Practical attempts from Slovakia

Jaroslava Ková?ová ()
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Jaroslava Ková?ová: University of Economics in Bratislava

No 1003957, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: A social innovation represents unusual inspirational ideas to various kinds of social problems which are more effective, efficient, sustainable, or introduce solutions for which the value created arises primarily to society as a whole rather than private individuals. The term social innovation is not very well known in Slovakia yet. Although it exists and develops, it is still more often spread as social affairs, social policy, or the third sector activities. This article brings an overview of social innovation definitions and describes how the free flow of ideas, values, roles, and relationships across sectors is enhancing the social innovation. Further we introduce the understanding of social innovation in Slovakia on a few chosen examples from various sectors. At last we suggest ways to continue dismantling the barriers between the sectors through collaboration between government, non-profit and business sector to create new and lasting solutions to the most nettlesome social problems of our times.

Keywords: Slovakia; social innovation; social policy; sustainability; governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 M14 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2015-05
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 15th International Academic Conference, Rome, May 2015, pages 618-628

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