SHAFE Mapping on Social Innovation Ecosystems

Carina Dantas (), Juliana Louceiro, Joana Vieira, Willeke van Staalduinen, Oscar Zanutto and Karolina Mackiewicz
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Carina Dantas: SHINE 2Europe, 3030-163 Coimbra, Portugal
Juliana Louceiro: SHINE 2Europe, 3030-163 Coimbra, Portugal
Joana Vieira: SHINE 2Europe, 3030-163 Coimbra, Portugal
Willeke van Staalduinen: AFEdemy—Academy on Age-Friendly Environments in Europe, 2806 ED Gouda, The Netherlands
Oscar Zanutto: Istituto per Servizi di Ricovero ed Assistenza agli Anziani, 31100 Treviso, Italy
Karolina Mackiewicz: ECHAlliance—European Connected Health Alliance, 13A Ballyhoy Avenue, 5 Dublin, Ireland

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 20, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: There have been several initiatives aiming to promote innovation and support stakeholders to increase investments in relevant societal areas connected to Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments—SHAFE. However, their impact usually runs shorter than desirable in the mid- and long-term due to the difficulty to identify, map, and connect stakeholders in the different European and world countries that are willing to work for the practical implementation of social innovation around SHAFE. This mapping and connection can contribute to increase awareness of innovation actors on social innovation concepts and, if well disseminated, may also leverage the creation of alliances and synergies between different stakeholders within ecosystems and between ecosystems. Understanding what relevant practices exist, how they are funded, and how they involve citizens and organisations is also key to ensure that business actors have access to social innovation and entrepreneurial knowledge, which is key for future sustainable societal change. The present study developed and implemented a survey replied by 61 organisations from 28 different countries. The results showed relevant inputs regarding different cultural and societal perceptions, including diverse end-user organisations, and will, thus, facilitate multistakeholder engagement, public awareness, and the overall upscaling of social innovation on SHAFE.

Keywords: social innovation; SHAFE; network; ecosystems; costs benefit and avoided costs; urban complex ecosystems; long-term sustainable future (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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