scholarly journals CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A REGIONAL CLUSTER OF SOCIAL INNOVATIONS: A MARKETING APPROACH

2021 ◽  
pp. 167-175
Author(s):  
Gulnara Efimovna Chernobaeva
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Information Support ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Regional Cluster ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Effective Models ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Marketing Approach

Today, the cluster approach is one of the most effective models for developing territories. A cluster of social innovations requires the formation of a specific environment that ensures both the sustainable development of the cluster construct itself and the emergence of specific social innovations. The aim of the research is to determine a set of tools based on the marketing approach for creating a unique environment that ensures the development of a regional cluster of social innovations. The diagnostic approach allowed us to define the main archetype of social innovation as consumer. Factor analysis allowed us to assess the impact of a set of supply and demand factors on the success of social innovations. Factors of internal and external demand, infrastructure and cultural factors are identified as the main factors of the environment for the development of social innovations. Combining two groups of factors (ensuring the success of social innovations and the success of cluster development) in the absence of their superposition properties allowed us to determine the main tools for creating an environment for the development of a regional cluster of social innovations on the basis of a predictive approach. The specifics of the identified success factors of the regional cluster of social innovations formed the basis for choosing a marketing approach to the formation of the environment. The formed environment of the regional cluster of social innovations should: ensure the growth of interest of all its potential cluster participants; demonstrate the availability of social initiatives; provoke successful innovations; form an effective system of information support for real and potential cluster participants; contribute to the integration of cluster management processes.

Support of Social Innovations

2017 ◽  
pp. 165-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarmila Šebestová ◽  
Zuzana Palová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Positive Externality ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Support Evaluation

The aim of this chapter is to summarize the theoretical knowledge from the field of social entrepreneurship and the creation of social innovation and highlight the impact EU funds have on the development of social innovation in selected regions of the Czech Republic. The authors assumed that there could be a positive link between the amount of financial support and the number of created social innovations within the chosen EU programmes. Classification of created social innovation according to type, creator, priority axis in relation to beneficiary etc. came under other objectives. Social innovations are created as a positive externality from other social projects. Finally, recommendation for sustainable support evaluation is provided.

scholarly journals The Effects of Environmental Policy and the Perception of Electric Motorcycles on the Acceptance of Electric Motorcycles: An Empirical Study in Macau

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824401989909
Author(s):  
Yide Liu ◽  
Ivan Ka Wai Lai
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Environmental Technology ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Key Success Factors ◽  
Gasoline Vehicles ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
The Impact

Air pollution is a serious environmental issue across the world and has drawn attention from researchers with different backgrounds. The carbon exhaust from gasoline vehicles is one cause of air pollution. One solution for reducing carbon emissions is to provide green vehicles, such as electric motorcycles, for drivers and passengers, which can help the sustainable development of the environment in an ecological way. This research discusses the market response to electric motorcycles in Macau by focusing on the effects of environmental policy. An environmental technology acceptance model was developed, based on which 325 valid questionnaires were collected. The research demonstrates the impact on motorcyclists’ acceptance of electric motorcycles by considering their perceptions of environmental policy, pollution reduction, the saving of energy, and driving performance; the results can lead to valuable discussions on the environment–technology–society ecosystem in further studies. The research results could help relevant government bodies to develop appropriate environmental policies to encourage motorcyclists to adopt electric motorcycles. Furthermore, the electric motorcycle industry could identify key success factors for developing or promoting electric motorcycles using the study variables.

scholarly journals Social Innovation as a Driver for New Educational Practices: Modernising, Repairing and Transforming the Education System

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1070 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonius Schröder ◽  
Daniel Krüger
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Global Mapping ◽  
Learner Perspective ◽  
The Eu

Based on the results of the EU funded Social Innovation – Driving Force of Social Change (SI-DRIVE) project the major challenges and needs of education and lifelong learning worldwide are revealed, focusing on solutions via new educational practices delivered by social innovations and embedding civil society. Against this background, a more learner-oriented approach instead of institutional improvements is presented. Based on the results of SI-DRIVE’s global mapping of more than 200 innovative education initiatives and 18 in-depth case studies, the article spotlights the relevant settings and success factors of social innovations in education, leading to a system related typology of social innovation. New ways of repairing, modernising and transforming education as well as separated approaches are illustrated showing the underdeveloped, unexploited and unrecognised potential of this kind of innovation. For setting up a more innovation friendly environment, it is particularly important to realise a paradigm shift towards a learner perspective and rationality. More leeway and new governance structures for integrating and fostering social innovations and unfolding the potential of all societal sectors for enhancing education are necessary. This especially includes a more active and new role of universities in enabling, exchanging, moderating and researching social innovation.

Empirical Approaches to Social Innovation

2019 ◽  
pp. 80-106
Author(s):  
Georg Mildenberger ◽  
Gudrun-Christine Schimpf ◽  
Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti ◽  
Nadia von Jacobi
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Abstract Categories ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Empirical Approaches ◽  
Method Approach ◽  
Oriented Approach

This chapter describes two empirical approaches with which social innovation and its potentially transformative role can be studied. Both are oriented towards the Extended Social Grid Model (ESGM) and strive to bring its abstract categories on the ground and facilitate empirical analyses; first an analysis of long-term comprehensive case studies; and second a mixed-method approach inspired by the capability approach for evaluating the impact of social innovations. Both approaches enter new ground in social innovation research and supply valuable insights into the nature of social innovation and how it can be examined. The historical approach reveals the complexities of social innovation trajectories; the agency oriented approach of the more quantitative study opens new paths for a measurement of social innovation impacts that can be applied in many situations.

Conclusion: local social innovation and welfare reform

2019 ◽  
pp. 217-228
Author(s):  
Stijn Oosterlynck ◽  
Andreas Novy ◽  
Yuri Kazepov
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

In this chapter, we draw a range of overall conclusions from our case-study based investigation of how local social innovations operate as vehicles of welfare reform. We reflect on the impact of the increased interest of policy-makers in social innovation and on the relationship between social innovation and other social policy paradigms, notably the established paradigm of social protection and its main contender, the social investment paradigm. We also discuss our main findings with regard to the mix of actors, resources and instruments supporting localized social innovations, the multi-scalar nature social innovations, its empowerment dimension and relationship with knowledge. Finally, we look at the consolidation of social innovation in specific welfare-institutional contexts.

scholarly journals Fractal-Synergetic Approach to the Research of Entrepreneurship in the Non-Profit Organizations

wisdom ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liudmila Alexandrovna Vasilenko
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Order Parameters ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
The Impact

We have applied the term “entrepreneurship” to the development of non-profit organizations working in the field of social and innovation activity. We consider entrepreneurship as a process of personal, self-organizing or systemic renewal and self-organization, as a movement through the development of ideas towards creating new and existing enterprises. We reviewed the promotion of social innovations on a methodological basis of sociosynergetics using cross-disciplinary and fractal-evolutionary approaches. The introduction of innovations is accompanied by the irreversibility expressed by the violation of symmetry between the past and the future (according to I. Prigogine), and the research of innovations requires the introduction of the concept of an “event”. Some events should have the ability to change the course of evolution. The criterion for evaluating the advancement of social innovation is the degree of its influence on the social system: the local nature of the impact (change in one or several order parameters) – Auto-Poesies models; the emergence of a new parameter of order in connection with the acquisition of a new quality of the social system – Synergy-integrating models; the allocation of a new sub-system in the framework of the modernized old social system – Openness entrepreneurship models; the birth of a fundamentally new social system, accompanied by the destruction of the old order parameters. In managing innovation processes, it is important to choose such innovations that are in line with the trends in the development of the social system, given the scale of social consequences.

scholarly journals Exploring social innovation in health in Central America and the Caribbean

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Josselyn Mothe ◽  
Luis E. Vacaflor ◽  
Diana M. Castro-Arroyave ◽  
Luis Gabriel Cuervo ◽  
Nancy Gore Saravia
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Central America ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Universal Health

Universal health coverage is a public health priority in the Americas. Social innovation in health offers novel solutions to unmet needs, by enabling health care delivery to be more inclusive, affordable, and effective. In 2017, an international collaborative consortium launched an open call for solutions that sought to identify social innovations in health in Central America and the Caribbean. The focus was set on how these solutions can strengthen health care delivery, with emphasis on reducing the impact of neglected transmissible diseases. A crowdsourcing strategy was implemented to identify social innovations in health. These were evaluated by an external panel of experts and practitioners and civil society representing the health and social innovation sectors, based on the appropriateness, innovativeness, and affordability of the solution. The three top-scoring solutions were analyzed through case studies including site visits by a team of investigators. Two key findings emerged from the response to the call: 1) innovative solutions were based on the knowledge and experience of individuals and communities facing adverse situations; 2) this knowledge was shared through health promotion and education, leading to empowerment of the communities. The principal challenges addressed by the solutions were the limited access to quality health care services and failed traditional strategies for vector control. The solutions identified demonstrated how social innovation can strengthen health systems by delivering novel solutions to health needs and articulating communities to enable them to work hand-in-hand with the health system toward universal health.

Disruptive processes and skills mismatches in the new economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Cukier
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
Market Effects ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
The Impact

Purpose Analysts predict that disruptive technologies, such as artificial intelligence, will have a monumental impact on the world of work in the coming decades, exacerbating existing skills gaps faster than education systems can adapt. This paper aims to review research on the forecasted impact of technology on labour markets and skill demands over the near term. Furthermore, it outlines how social innovations and inclusion can be leveraged as strategies to mitigate the predicted impact of disruptive technologies. Design/methodology/approach The paper engages in an overview of relevant academic literature, policy and industry reports focussing on disruptive technologies, labour market “skills gaps” and training to identify ongoing trends and prospective solutions. Findings This paper identifies an array of predictions, made in studies and reports, about the impact of disruptive technologies on labour markets. It outlines that even conservative estimates can be expected to considerably exacerbate existing skills gaps. In turn, it identifies work-integrated learning and technology-enabled talent matching platforms as tools, which could be used to mitigate the effects of disruptive technologies on labour markets. It argues that there is a need for rigorous evaluation of innovative programmes being piloted across jurisdictions. Research limitations/implications This paper focusses on these dynamics primarily as they are playing out in Canada and similar Western countries. However, our review and conclusions are not generalizable to other regions and economies at different stages of development. Further work is needed to ascertain how disruptive technologies will affect alternative jurisdictions. Social implications While “future of work” debates typically focus on technology and deterministic narratives, this paper points out that social innovations in training and inclusive technologies could prove useful in helping societies cope with the labour market effects of disruptive technologies. Originality/value This paper provides a state-of-the-art review of the existing literature on the labour market effects of novel technologies. It contributes original insights into the future of work debates by outlining how social innovation and inclusion can be used as tools to address looming skills mismatches over the short to medium term.

Social innovation and food poverty

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Baglioni ◽  
Stephen Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Food Provision ◽  
The Impact

This chapter considers the response of social innovations to the growing concern with food poverty. Food provision has not traditionally been a core public welfare function in the most developed welfare regimes, and social innovations often provide more developed and effective responses than government in this area. Voluntary and civil society organisations have pioneered a variety of innovations to feed vulnerable groups while also reducing surplus food waste. These initiatives involve partnerships with private sector food companies which donate surplus supplies which social innovations distribute. The chapter provides examples of how inventive social innovations have had to be to meet the considerable logistical challenges they face in acquiring, storing and distributing surplus food. The chapter concludes by highlighting examples of the impact which social have had in helping to shape public policy innovations in the area of food poverty.

scholarly journals The problems of the problems of the building a system of indicators for assesing the impact of the economy’s shadowization on the potential of sustainable development of the territory

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Shadow Economy ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Actual State ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact

The article deals with the forming of indicators characterizing the process of shadowing the economy and its impact on the potential of the sustainable development of the territory, taking into account the financial and economic component. It was determined that the shadowization of the economy directly affects the system of the national economy. The expediency of studying shadow economy as separate indicators in the general dynamics of macroeconomic development, but as integral components of the potential for sustainable development of the territory was justified. The creation of new programs and plans designed to bring the regions to a new level of quality in the development of territories depends on the level of influence of indicators of the shadow economy. The main criteria for assessing the impact of the shadow economy, the potential for sustainable development of the territory in the context of the integration of Ukraine into the European Union and the reform of local government were established. It was determined that efficient realization of the potential for the sustainable development of a territory largely depends on the creation of a system for monitoring the processes of shadow economy. The ways of using the system of indicators and the directions of building a system of indicators for assessing the impact of the economy’s shadowization on the development of the potential for sustainable development of the territory, including financial were identified. One of the problems of using indicators of the economy’s shadowization in managing the potential for the development of territories proved to be its information support, namely, the assessment of the actual state of indicators of shadowization. A scientific and methodological approach to building and assessing the indicators of the formation of components of an indicator of sustainable development of the territory, taking into account the mutual influence of the factors of the economy’s shadowization on the basis of economic and mathematical analysis, which includes six stages with the interpretation of the results, was proposed. The composition of the indicators of the formation of an indicator of sustainable development was suggested to consider taking into account the financial and economic factors of sustainable development of the territory.

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