The Evolution of Social Innovation

Edited by Frances Westley, Katherine McGowan and Ola Tjörnbo

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Abstract: In a time where governments and civil society organizations are putting ever-greater stock in social innovation as a route to transformation, understanding what characterizes social innovation with transformative potential is important. Exciting and promising ideas seem to die out as often as they take flight, and market mechanisms, which go a long way towards contributing to successful technical innovations, play an insignificant role in social innovations. The cases in this book explore the evolution of successful social innovation through time, from the ideas which catalysed social and system entrepreneurs to create new processes, platforms, projects and programs to fundamental social shifts in culture, economics, laws and policies which occurred as a result. In doing so, the authors shed light on how to recognize transformative potential in the early stage innovations we see today.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Social Policy and Sociology; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
ISBN: 9781786431141
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 The history of social innovation , pp 1-17

Katharine McGowan, Frances Westley and Ola Tjörnbo

Ch 2 National parks in the United States , pp 18-39

Nino Antadze

Ch 3 The intelligence test , pp 40-57

Katharine McGowan

Ch 4 Synthesis: agency and opportunity , pp 58-72

Per Olsson

Ch 5 The legalization of birth control in North America , pp 73-87

Nino Antadze and Jaclyn Blacklock

Ch 6 The duty to consult and accommodate in Canada , pp 88-115

Erin Alexiuk

Ch 7 The Internet: a dynamic history , pp 116-132

Ola Tjörnbo

Ch 8 Synthesis: self-organization, strange attractors and social innovation , pp 133-145

Daniel McCarthy

Ch 9 The global derivatives market as social innovation , pp 146-175

Sean Geobey

Ch 10 Indian residential schools , pp 176-195

Katharine McGowan

Ch 11 “A fever for businessâ€: Dutch joint stock companies , pp 196-217

Katharine McGowan

Ch 12 Synthesis: tracking transformative impacts and cross-scale dynamics , pp 218-238

Michele-Lee Moore

Ch 13 Conclusion: recognizing transformative potential , pp 239-256

Frances Westley

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