Strategic Niche Management of Social Innovations: the Case of Social Entrepreneurship

Marten Witkamp (), Rob Raven () and Lamber Royakkers ()

No 10-06, Working Papers from Eindhoven Center for Innovation Studies

Abstract: Strategic niche management (SNM), a tool to understand and manage radical socio-technical innovations and facilitate their diffusion, has always departed from a technical artefact. Many radical innovations, however, do not revolve around such an artefact. Social entrepreneurship is a new business model that combines a social goal with a business mentality and is heralded as an important new way to create social value such as sustainability. This study examines if and how SNM can be applied to such a social innovation. It identifies theoretical and practical limitations and proposes solutions. The main conclusion is that SNM can be used to analyse radical social innovation, although it requires rethinking the initial entry point for research and management. Exemplifying quotes are proposed as an alternative. Second, this paper suggests using values to describe niche-regime interaction as a better way to anticipate future niche-regime interactions.

Keywords: Multi-Level Perspective; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Innovation; Socio-technical Regime; Strategic Niche Management; Value (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-07, Revised 2010-07
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