Consolidating social innovation

Kazepov, Yuri; Saruis, Tatiana; Colombo, F.

doi:10.51952/9781447338451.ch009

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“…A key challenge for social innovation is how individual examples can go beyond silos and discrete projects and have an impact beyond their original contexts. Factors contributing to survival, further development, and (occasionally) mainstreaming include: deploying evidence, seizing political opportunities, building legitimacy, securing funding, and capitalising on existing local and national priorities (Albury et al, 2018;Kazepov et al, 2019).…”

Section: Co-creation and Social Innovationmentioning

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Sustaining and Growing Innovations in Democracy and Co-Creation

Baines

2023

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Co-creation of public services implies new roles and responsibilities that, at least potentially, change the balance of control. In this way, it aligns closely with democratic renewal. This paper draws on the outcomes of a collaborative innovation project Co-creation of Service Innovation in Europe (CoSIE) funded under Horizon 2020. CoSIE built upon the idea that public sector innovations can be best achieved by creating collaborative partnerships between service providers (public sector agencies, third sector organisations, private companies) and citizens who receive services directly or indirectly. CoSIE was implemented through ten real-life innovation pilots in different public services across Europe. Results showed how co-creative methods could promote democratic dimensions, increasing the civic participation of marginalised and often voiceless population groups (residents of depleted urban neighbourhoods, disabled people in remote rural areas, citizens adrift from the world of work, and non-EU migrants). Some CoSIE pilots were more successful than others in extending impact beyond their immediate localities and service contexts. The paper highlights common factors that helped share learning and evolve project innovations into the ‘modus operandi’ of institutions and societies.

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Section: Co-creation and Social Innovationmentioning

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Sustaining and Growing Innovations in Democracy and Co-Creation

Baines

2023

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“…In light of such limitations, social innovation scholars are calling for the local state to support these initiatives materially and legally, and encourage more of them to emerge (Kazepov et al, 2020) within a framework that has been defined as a bottom-linked approach to social innovation (Moulaert, 2010;Pradel-Miquel et al, 2013). According to this approach, state support for grassroots social innovation initiatives should be inscribed within a broader vision that rethinks the governance of welfare institutions, where the relationship between these initiatives and public welfare is defined in a more imbricated way: together they co-produce, co-learn and negotiate more democratic welfare institutions (Oosterlynck et al, 2020).…”

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“…According to this approach, state support for grassroots social innovation initiatives should be inscribed within a broader vision that rethinks the governance of welfare institutions, where the relationship between these initiatives and public welfare is defined in a more imbricated way: together they co-produce, co-learn and negotiate more democratic welfare institutions (Oosterlynck et al, 2020). The bottom-linked approach to social innovation can be beneficial for both public and grassroots welfare: the state can transform public welfare incrementally thanks to the innovative "messages" conveyed by these initiatives in terms of policy values, contents, objectives and modes (Evers and Brandsen, 2016); and the initiatives, by overcoming the above-mentioned limitations, can develop, consolidate and, most importantly, empower themselves (Kazepov et al, 2020).…”

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Empowering policies for grassroots welfare initiatives: Blending social innovation and commons theory

Bianchi

2022

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Social innovation scholars see grassroots welfare initiatives as being potentially empowering. However, they also argue that this potential is enhanced when these initiatives receive support from local governments through a bottom-linked approach to social innovation. This article examines how empowering policies for grassroots welfare initiatives can be provided within a bottom-linked approach, while considering the reservations expressed by critical urban scholars on the link between them. By introducing the concept of self-government developed within commons theory into the bottom-linked approach to social innovation, it argues that policies aiming to empower grassroots welfare initiatives should provide adequate material and legal support, and should foster the emergence of new initiatives, but should always be careful not to limit their self-governing capacity. The article carries out a comparative analysis of two cases of grassroots welfare initiatives in Barcelona, comparing two different policy interventions adopted by the local government: one is a case in which an empowering policy was implemented, and the other one is a case in which this did not take place. The article concludes by highlighting the contribution made by this study for both policymaking and scholarly research.

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Consolidating social innovation

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Sustaining and Growing Innovations in Democracy and Co-Creation

Sustaining and Growing Innovations in Democracy and Co-Creation

Empowering policies for grassroots welfare initiatives: Blending social innovation and commons theory

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