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TRANSIT Brief 6 : Transformative social innovation - What have we learned

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Authors: Wittmayer, Julia; Kemp, René; Haxeltine, Alex;; Avelino, Flor; Pel, Bonno; Ruijsink, Saskia; Jørgensen, Michael Søgaard and Rach, Sarah
Publication date: 2017
Keywords: Transformative Social Innovation, research, theory, empowerment, social innovation

This TRANSIT brief describes our main results – both in terms of scientific insights and in terms of the societal implications of the research. Scientifically, our research focused on addressing the following questions:

  • How do we conceptualize and study transformative social innovation?
  • How, to what extent and under which conditions does social innovation contribute to transformative change?
  • How are people empowered (or disempowered) to contribute to such processes? 

In keeping with an ambition that insights generated should be relevant to both practice and policy, we produced a series of ‘briefs’ and organised seminars and other forms of interaction with practitioners and policy makers. In this brief, we start by describing how the TRANSIT research was conducted (section 2). Next, we present some key theoretical insights about the relations between social innovation and transformative social change (section 3), followed by some key insights regarding the themes of governance, social learning, resourcing, monitoring and the changing societal context (section 4). The final section looks forward to the emergence of a transformative social innovation community (section 5).

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Wittmayer, |S., Kemp. R., Haxeltine, A., Avelino, F., Pel. B., Ruijsink, S., Jørgensen, M. S. and Rach, S. (2017) Transformative social innovation - What have we learned in four years of research? (TRANSIT Brief ; 6), TRANSIT: EU SHH.2013.3.2-1 Grant agreement: 613169.

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