Knowledge-Intensive Social Services as the Basis for the National Social Innovation Systems

Benoit Desmarchelier (), Faridah Djellal () and Faïz Gallouj
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Benoit Desmarchelier: The University of Lille (France)

Foresight and STI Governance (Foresight-Russia till No. 3/2015), 2022, vol. 16, issue 1, 34-41

Abstract: This paper provides theoretical foundations for the existence of national social innovations systems (NSIS) and presents such a system with empirical data. Departing from the activities in France of Ashoka, a large and old service organization, which we label as knowledge-intensive social service (KISS), we build a large and robust social innovation network in France and argue that it represents a credible approximation of the country’s NSIS. On this basis, we find differences within the national innovation system (NIS). Indeed, the core of the NSIS involves very few actors emanating from manufacturing or technology-intensive industries, and the coordination between actors seems more bottom-up than in the NIS.

Keywords: national innovation system; knowledge-intensive services; third sector; social innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O10 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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