Social Innovation and Why it has Policy Significance

作者：David Adams, Michael Heß · 发表于：The Economic and Labour Relations Review · 年份：2010 · DOI：10.1177/103530461002100209 · 被引用次数：116 · 研究领域：Community Development and Social Impact、Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development、Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

Abstract Academic discussion of social challenges and the government interventions which might address them are overlooking social innovation as an option. Contemporary trends at the community-public management interface, however, show an upsurge of interest in social innovation as a way of simultaneously creating social benefit and economic opportunity. While this indicates that the idea has genuine substance our observation of international and Australian developments convinces us that there is now sufficient experience upon which to base an understanding of what social innovation is and why it has policy significance. In this article we identify some components of social innovation practice and indicate how these might be theorised into generally applicable models.