SOCIAL INNOVATION

FUNDAMENTALS
 What is social innovation?

- A new solution or an approach to a

social problem
- Changes the pattern in a field
(education, environment, health etc)
- At the national level, or across a
broader region
 Social innovation: the OECD Definition
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

• It can concern conceptual, process or product change, organisational

change and changes in financing, and new relationships awith
stakeholders and territories.” It seeks new answers to social problems by:
– identifying and delivering new services that improve the quality of life
of individuals and communities;
– identifying and implementing new labour market integration processes,
new competencies, new jobs, and new forms of participation, as
diverse elements that each contribute to improving the position of
individuals in the workforce both as producers and consumers. (OECD,
2000)
 To modernize public
local services, general
interest services and
community services To respond in a
often by involving users more tailored,
in the design, effective way to
implementation and
evaluation of these people’s needs.
services = reactivating,
rebuilding social capital.
To address social
complex challenges by Social innovation
providing innovative
solutions at local and
aims to produce
global levels ( social social change.
and economic This can be
exclusion, poverty, incremental or
ageing and
demographic change,
radical.
green growth,etc ).
 Individual,
collective
and
institutional
creativity Capacity to
« think out of
the box » and
to walk off the
beaten tracks

Ability to mobilize
different human
Ability to make and financial
a social impact resources and to
and to change work in
the society partnership: not
Some actors ( e.g. the monopoly of
social enteprises, one sector.
community
organizations) can
be better suited
than others to
implement social
innovation
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