Youth-driven innovation, engagement and empowerment

Kristin S. Williams

Chapter 53 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management, 2025, pp 203-205 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Innovation studies have largely ignored the potential of youth, despite evidence that youth engagement in a variety of endeavours has positive outcomes. Creating strategic entry points for youth and promoting empowerment in youth promote intergenerational equity and sustainable development, key concerns of innovation studies. Youth-driven innovation requires liberating youth creativity through youth empowerment and fostering a culture of resourcefulness. Youth-driven innovation ranges from those innovations entirely led by youth, to innovations initiated by adults but engaging with youth, and can range from incremental to radical, from aesthetic to functional. Youth can also contribute to the diffusion of innovation. Empowering youth, particularly through creative engagement, has been shown to foster youth-driven innovation with economic, social and cultural impact. With youth as architects of innovation, empowered by their talent, creativity and environment, evidence points to increased local activism, social cohesion, citizenship, solidarity and entrepreneurship.

Keywords: Youth; Youth-driven innovation; Engagement; Empowerment; Creativity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035306442
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