Reframing innovation policy: social innovation and a new innovation paradigm

Jürgen Howaldt

Chapter 10 in The New Role of the State for Transformative Innovation, 2026, pp 164-178 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In recent years, there has been a growing realization that innovation policy is falling short of its potential to address the multiple global challenges that affect contemporary and future societies. Against this background, the chapter analyses the concept of innovation underlying the prevailing innovation policy. It argues that the diverse debates on a reorientation of innovation policy reveal the contours of a New Innovation Paradigm. Social innovation is at the heart of the realignment. The challenges associated with the concept of social innovation as part of a new innovation paradigm require innovation in government and in the relation between the state, the markets and civil society. Against this background, the chapteroutlines the contours of an innovation policy, which addresses the social, economic, political, and environmental challenges of the twenty-first century and the associated processes of societal transformation processes.

Keywords: Innovation Policy; Mission Orientation; New Innovation Paradigm; Social Innovation; Societal Transformation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781839100253
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