Growing social innovation : a literature review

This purpose of this report is to review the literature relevant to the question of how social innovations spread. Although there is little research explicitly focused on growing social innovations per se, literature that is relevant to the process of growing and spreading social innovations is potentially limitless, covering much of the political and social sciences. This study covers:   ·        

• Literature that examines the concept of ‘scaling up’ and ‘scaling impact’       
• Literature that examines the concept of diffusion of innovation

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Citation

Davies, Anna and Simon Julie (2013) Growing social innovation : a literature review. A deliverable of the project : “The theoretical, empirical and policy foundations for building social innovation in Europe” (TEPSIE), European Commission – 7th Framework Programme, Brussels: European Commission, DG Research.