Social innovations are becoming increasingly significant around the world, and not only in practical respects. Efforts towards a theoretical classification and grounding of the concept are also gaining momentum. This can be seen from a series of major academic conferences such as the Challenge Social Innovation conference in September 2011 in Vienna, the Social Frontiers conference in November 2013 in London, the fourth international CRISES conference in Montreal in April 2014, and the large-scale international research projects SI DRIVE and Transit which are funded under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme. In this light, we are pleased to be able to bring you an English version of our book on the theory of social innovations, which was published in German in 2014, as a contribution to current and future international discourse. [Authors' preface].
Howaldt, Jürgen; Kopp, Ralf and Schwarz, Michael (2015) On the theory of social innovations : Tarde's neglected contribution to the development of a social innovation theory, Weinheim, Beltz Juventa.
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