Challenge social innovation : potentials for business, social entrepreneurship, welfare and civil society

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Challenge social innovation : potentials for business, social entrepreneurship, welfare and civil society

Title remainder

potentials for business, social entrepreneurship, welfare and civil society

Statement of responsibility

Hans-Werner Franz, Josef Hochgerner, Jürgen Howaldt, editors

Contributor

• Challenge Social Innovation Conference, 2011
• Hochgerner, Josef, 1948-
• Howaldt, Jürgen, 1960-
• Franz, Hans-Werner

Subject

• Social entrepreneurship -- Congresses
• Entrepreneurship -- Social aspects -- Congresses
• Conference proceedings
• Sociale vernieuwing
• Entrepreneurship -- Social aspects
• Social responsibility of business
• Social responsibility of business -- Congresses
• Social entrepreneurship

Genre

• Conference proceedings
• Congresses

Language

eng

Summary

In recent years, social innovation has experienced a steep career. Numerous national governments and large organisations like the OECD, the European Commission and UNESCO have adopted the term. Social innovation basically means that people adopt new social practices in order to meet social needs in a different or more effective way. Prominent examples of the past are the Red Cross and the social welfare state or, at present, the internet 2.0 transforming our communication and cooperation schemes, requiring new management concepts, even empowering social revolutions. The traditional concept of innovation as successful new technological products needs fundamental rethinking in a society marked by knowledge and services, leading to a new and enriched paradigm of innovation. There is multiple evidence that social innovation will become of growing importance not only concerning social integration, equal opportunities and dealing with the greenhouse effects but also with regard to preserving and expanding the innovative capacity of companies and societies. While political authorities stress the social facets of social innovation, this book also encompasses its societal and systemic dimensions, collecting the scientific expertise of renowned experts and scholars from all over the world. Based on the contributions of the first world-wide science convention on social innovation from September 2011 in Vienna, the book provides an overview of scientific approaches to this still relatively new field

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

HD60

LC item number

.C4425 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography