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Year: 2021
Published in: Avise
Cited as: Avise (2021). Handbook: Social innovation. Avise.
Subject
Handbook: Social innovation
Abstract
The social innovation momentum is real. That said, it still requires more recognition, support and funding in order to increase its capacity to trigger the emergence of solutions addressing the major challenges facing our society. This handbook, produced by Avise, offers a social innovation awareness-raising summary aimed at support and finance professionals, as well as public sector stakeholders in territorial economic development.
Avise’s work on social innovation takes as its reference the definition used by the Conseil supérieur de l’économie sociale et solidaire (French Social and Solidarity Council):
“SOCIAL INNOVATION consists in developing new solutions to address new or inadequately met social needs within existing market and social policy conditions, involving the participation and cooperation of the players concerned, particularly users and consumers. These innovations concern the product or service, as well as the mode of organisation, distribution, (etc.). They go through a multi-step process: emergence, experimentation, dissemination, evaluation.”
