In the TRANSIT resource hub you can search for materials that provide an overview of theories on social innovation in general that we have built upon.
As we developed our theory on Transformative Social Innovation, the hub provides materials that:
- are published in TRANSIT
- are related to the cases that we study
- are related to key themes in TRANSIT (governance, social learning, monitoring and resourcing)
You have searched within keywords for "social entrepreneurs" we have found 31 results.
This brief discusses resources for social innovation, needs and methods for monitoring social innovations and for evaluating social impacts, tensions around resourcing and monitoring, resourcing strategies of social innovation organizations, developmental evaluation, and roles for science in supporting SI. Based on looking at social innovation from the perspectives of resourcing, monitoring and... More
PowerPoint presented at the meeting: Paradoxes of Transformative Social Innovation : interrogating new knowings of governance and imaginaries of societal transformation, 6-7 December 2017, Brussels. More
In this paper, the authors investigate significant social innovation policies (related to the concept of social investment) involving the role of Social Economy organizations, and they discuss some relevant national and regional social innovation experiences by relying upon the current national and international literature, reports and website information. During the 1990s and the first half of... More
Ashoka is a global network that supports social entrepreneurs (SE): more than 3,000 SE ‘fellows’ in > 70 countries around the world. Ashoka invests in social entrepreneurs by providing personal financial support for 1 to 3 years to ‘leading changemakers’ across the world. Ashoka is thriving for maximum social impact, therefore group entrepreneurship is promoted and... More
Interest in social innovation continues to rise, from governments setting up social innovation 'labs' to large corporations developing social innovation strategies. Yet theory lags behind practice, and this hampers our ability to understand social innovation and make the most of its potential. This collection brings together work by leading social innovation researchers globally, exploring the... More
This report focuses on the Impact Hub, a global network of social entrepreneurs which provides innovative co-creation places around the world to its members that are 'working on ideas for a radically better world'. The Impact Hub has been studied as an exemplary social network that facilitates social innovation and entrepreneurial activity. It has also been used as empirical material in research... More
Impact Hub (IH) is a ‘locally active and globally connected’ network of social entrepreneurs, combining elements from co-working spaces, innovation labs and business incubators. Impact Hubs across the world aim to create ‘inspiring spaces’, ‘vibrant communities’ and ‘meaningful content’, inspired by the shared values of ‘trust’,... More
There are 1182 FabLabs globally networked: from Colombia to Canada, Namibia to the Netherlands. Deriving from a model pioneered by the Centre for Bits and Atoms at MIT, FabLabs are digital fabrication workshops open to local communities, and with access to open source design and manufacturing resources. They enable people to make whatever they want, turning consumers into producers. Advocates see... More
The Impact Hub is a global network of social entrepreneurs which provides innovative co-working places ("Hubs") in 40+ cities around the world, focused on social entrepreneurs that are 'working on ideas for a radically better world'. Founded in 2005 in the UK, this network is spreading around the globe bridging the gap between entrepreneurship, social business and sustainability, while fostering... More
The Impact Hub is a global network of social entrepreneurs which provides innovative co-working places ("Hubs") in 40+ cities around the world, focused on social entrepreneurs that are 'working on ideas for a radically better world'. Founded in 2005 in the UK, this network is spreading around the globe bridging the gap between entrepreneurship, social business and sustainability, while fostering... More
The Impact Hub is a global network of social entrepreneurs which provides innovative co-working places ("Hubs") in 40+ cities around the world, focused on social entrepreneurs that are 'working on ideas for a radically better world'. Founded in 2005 in the UK, this network is spreading around the globe bridging the gap between entrepreneurship, social business and sustainability, while fostering... More
The Impact Hub is a global network of social entrepreneurs which provides innovative co-working places ("Hubs") in 40+ cities around the world, focused on social entrepreneurs that are 'working on ideas for a radically better world'. Founded in 2005 in the UK, this network is spreading around the globe bridging the gap between entrepreneurship, social business and sustainability, while fostering... More
A pesar de tratarse de un concepto emergente en la literatura de las ciencias sociales, y de considerarse una fuente importante de la solución de los problemas sociales, la innovación social carece de una definición generalmente aceptada y de un modelo explicativo de su funcionamiento. En un contexto de crisis en que los desequilibrios sociales de un mundo globalizado y en... More
The worldwide growth of social enterprise is threatened by a dearth of capital. social enterprises need investment to grow and to innovate – investment that takes on the risk of the enterprise. This kind of capital cannot easily be pieced together from limited grants, conventional equity and ill-fitted debt. As increasing numbers of social entrepreneurs and mission-based financiers seek to... More
This volume – part of a series on methods and issues in social innovation – focuses on how to establish and grow a social venture. Key findings: Launching a social venture involves: effective business and governance models; sources of finance; a network and communications model; a staffing model that includes the role of volunteers; and a development plan for operational systems.... More
Over the past few years there has been a growing interest on the part of the scientific community (and, more recently, of policymakers) in the concept of social innovation. The notion of social innovation is particularly appealing in light of the difficulties facing traditional welfare systems and, more broadly, a development model that is finding it increasingly difficult to meet the growing and... More
This study provides a comparative analysis of 7 cases of social entrepreneurship that have been widely recognized as successful. The article suggests factors associated with successful social entrepreneurship, particularly with social entrepreneurship that leads to significant changes in the social, political, and economic contexts for poor and marginalized groups. It generates propositions about... More
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... More
From a social problem-solution springboard, this paper develops a framework to capture the breadth and fluidity of social innovation within the contemporary landscape of innovation. The social innovation continuum advanced in the paper reconciles incremental, institutional and disruptive social innovations that vary in their scalability and impact. A novel notion of hybrid innovation extends the... More
This report aims to help social innovators think through the best scaling options for them. It looks at how others have developed their scaling strategies, reflects on the benefits and challenges of different options, and shows how social innovators have tackled these in reality. The point of departure for this report was In and Out of Sync, a NESTA publication from 2007. They have built on the... More
Defines and develops a new set of variables to determine the best conditions for effective social innovation; Useful for governments, academic centres, foundations and entrepreneurs interested in measuring the potential of social innovation; Builds on social entrepreneurship research at ESADE Business School; and Explores four inspiring cases [Publisher’s abstract] More
This article analyses whether and how social innovations can be implemented in a Conservative/Bismarckian welfare regime and society such as Germany. It examines the transferability and the relevance of this discourse and practice, and argues that, due to existing institutional structures and cultures, innovation by public sector intrapreneurship is more significant in Germany than through social... More
This study brings together these two strands of theoretical analysis and focuses on the case of The Hub, an international network of incubators for social innovation and social entrepreneurship. Looking at the role played by its internal hosts as knowledge-management facilitators and creators of communities of practice, the study will assess how The Hub is adopting a networked approach to social... More
This policy guide aims to add a perspective to the global conversation already under way about how we move beyond binary choices in crafting responses to social, economic, and environmental challenges. Fundamentally, it is about leveraging private enterprise and capital for public benefit. We refer to this as social innovation. So what role can and should government play to catalyse social... More
This is European Social Innovation was launched by Euclid Network in partnership with The European Commission, Social Innovation eXchange (SIX lead partner) and the Bilbao Social Innovation Park, to identify 10 large-scale successful examples of socially innovative initiatives, with the aim of raising the profile of social innovation across Europe and creating an impact beyond the established... More
Social innovation, or at least innovation to provide answers to social needs, seems to be at the heart of the fast developing literature around ‘Social Enterprise concepts’. So it makes sense to question more deeply the actual links which may exist between the corpus of social enterprise research and the social innovation dynamics as defined in this book’s introduction through... More
This study proposes a conceptual framework for understanding Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Cluster. First, it presents a structural analysis of the emerging processes of social entrepreneurship in Japan, and then shows how social enterprises establish organizational strategies and promote social innovation. In analyzing the emergence of social entrepreneurship, we have reviewed... More
What is essentially innovation occurs at the level of social behavioural patterns, routines, practices and settings. An innovation is therefore social to the extent that, either conveyed by the market or the non-profit sector, it is socially accepted and widely diffused throughout the society or in certain societal sub-domains, transformed depending on circumstances and ultimately... More
Most social entrepreneurs start their work on a local level; the goal is to tackle a certain social problem. When successful, they next work to “scale out” the initiative, disseminating it to other individuals, organizations or communities. However, over time the same social entrepreneurs discover that to reach their goal they need to change the system that created the problem in a... More
In recent years there is a growing interest in support for social innovations that aim at fixing social problems or satisfy social needs. Especially new financial instruments are debated that are about facilitating social innovators. Also in Germany there is a growing heterogeneity in financial instruments for social entrepreneurs available. But until today there is just a poor understanding of... More
Actors, the individuals or groups of individuals (organizations) who are able to influence outcomes and cause change, are in many ways the repositories of knowledge and skills for social innovation in a fast-changing environment where there is limited external, contemporary documentation. Because knowledge is spread across actors, interaction is required for the different knowledge types to mix.... More
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