This TRANSIT brief addresses the governance and politics of transformative social innovation. Social innovation means new social relations, involving new ways of doing, organizing, knowing and framing. Social innovation is ‘transformative’, when it moves beyond a single local innovation towards significantly challenging the social context. In our research project, we study 20 social innovation networks and 40 related local initiatives, most of which have such explicit transformative ambitions. In this brief you can read about the co-production of transformative social innovation in terms of how it generates solutions, but also the problems, setbacks, constraints and negative side-effects involved with this coproduction. We address four themes: (1) the development of ‘transformative impulse’, (2) the institutionalization of social innovation initiatives, (3) the hybrid nature of transformative social innovation, and (4) the relevance of different cultural and geographic contexts.
Pel, B., Weaver, P., Strasser, T., Kemp, R., Avelino, F. and Becerra, L. (2015) Governance : co-productions challenges in Transformative Social Innovation (TRANSIT Brief ; 2), TRANSIT: EU SSH.2013.3.2-1 Grant agreement no: 613169.
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