Social Innovation and Civil Society in Urban Governance: Strategies for an Inclusive City

Gerometta, Julia; Häußermann, Hartmut; Longo, Giulia

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“…However, this focus appears to be strongly related to national development priorities and fails to emphasise the importance of social innovation to local development. 8,9 Secondly, following observations by rural researchers, 10 the Review Committee also acknowledged that development for the poor should consider not only the poor as consumers of innovation, but also their immense potential for creative and active agency, 2 while noting that structural conditions limit their ability to exercise their agency to the fullest. The recognition of the poor as both innovators and consumers of innovations is in itself an important shift away from the narrow view that innovations benefit the poor by means of technological trickle-down effects.…”

Section: Innovation Policy and Strategy In South Africamentioning

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Revealing the social face of innovation

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Despite the introduction of social innovation in the 1996 White Paper on Science and Technology, the concept of social innovation has not been actively implemented or even diffused outside of the policy arena in South Africa. Perceptions about what the concept of social innovation should encompass are contested and range from ideas of social welfare outcomes, public goods and a primary focus on the poor. More recently, the emphasis has been on inclusive development that embraces and supports the poor as innovators and which incorporates elements of social and economic development. While contestation in terminology persists, evidence from South Africa’s rural areas suggests that although there may be limited state intervention, hampered by structural constraints, and limited understanding of contemporary ideas about innovation and social innovation, local actors practise a variety of forms of social innovation. In most instances, the purpose is to improve social and economic well-being of the poor. Such innovation activities occur almost as widely and as often as strictly commercially oriented innovation activities. However, it is unclear from observed social innovation practices who should benefit from these practices (the poor or everyone), how (directly or indirectly) and when (immediately or gradually). It is suggested that extensive use of the actor-oriented sociological approach to understanding social dynamics in both science and development can provide a means of understanding the subtleties involved in innovation practices and its use should be adopted to address structural challenges within the National System of Innovation that mediate against the contribution of innovations to the poor for inclusive development.

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“…Most studies of this subject fall into one of these three distinct categories: defining and testing methodological tools for studying innovation (mainly in sociology and cross-cultural psychology); developing innovation-related concepts and definitions; presenting results of applied research into an individual's attitude to innovation. Gerometta et al (2005), Prigulny (2007), Kotelnikova (2012), Burns and Krampf (2015), Kirko et al (2012), Glor (2015a;2015b), Baker and Mehmood (2015), Baumgarten (1975) research the methodology of innovation and try to define its varieties and types. Taylor, (1970), Carlson et al (1971), Zhuravskaya (2008), Fujisawa et al (2015), Kuehlwein and Rosen (1993) look into the foundations of systemic analysis of innovation, including systemic component, systemic structural, and systemic functional approaches.…”

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Innovative Qualities of Today’s Young Students (As Exemplified by the Siberian Federal University

Kistova¹,

Pimenova²,

Reznikova³

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This paper looks into young people's attitudes to innovation. It goes without saying that being innovative is more than just an adaptation tool in a modern society; it is also a personal characteristic allowing one to be an active participant in innovation processes. This is an attempt to study innovative qualities found in today's young students of the humanities and technology. The study was conducted using the Self-Assessment Innovation Scale (a method designed by N. M. Lebedeva and A. N. Tatarko). The key idea of this method is to gauge a person's propensity towards innovation by self-assessing their innovative qualities. The study revealed that most students have a medium level of innovativeness

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“…As indicated extensively by Moulaert and Nussbaumer (2005), Eaton (2008), Gerometta et al (2005), and Graefe (2002), among others, attending to matters of governance is as important to social economy analyses as it is to other spheres and tiers of governance (Davies, 2008). A second aim of the questionnaire was therefore to construct a more nuanced picture of the governing conditions that frame how ESEEs in Ireland operate.…”

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Greening the economy: interrogating sustainability innovations beyond the mainstream

Davies

Mullin

2010

Journal of Economic Geography

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Current international economic and environmental conditions have led to increasing calls for alternative pathways of development. Globally, the language of a green economy is being promoted as a means to develop a 'win-win' for the economy and the environment. There are concerns, however, that the emerging frameworks for sustainable economic renewal marginalize social dimensions of sustainability and the already existing practices of sustainability innovation within the social economy. Using empirical evidence from Ireland, this article examines the dimensions of this marginalisation by interrogating the dynamic landscape of environmentally focused social economy enterprises as additional spaces of sustainability innovation for a greener economy. It is found that while these enterprises can be cast as spaces of actually existing sustainable development tensions persist which together raise general questions about measuring and communicating sustainability as well as more foundational issues relating to permissible forms of sustainable economic renewal.

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Social Innovation and Civil Society in Urban Governance: Strategies for an Inclusive City

Cited by 331 publications

References 14 publications

Revealing the social face of innovation

Revealing the social face of innovation

Innovative Qualities of Today’s Young Students (As Exemplified by the Siberian Federal University

Greening the economy: interrogating sustainability innovations beyond the mainstream

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