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Grassroots innovation and social innovation in perspective [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2023
This article provides a comprehensive review of social innovation and grassroots innovation over the last 5 years, offering a detailed analysis of both concepts.
Karina Maldonado-Mariscal
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Citizen-Based Air Quality Monitoring: The Impact on Individual Citizen Scientists and How to Leverage the Benefits to Affect Whole Regions

open access: yesCitizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2020
Air pollution is a serious problem that is causing increasing concern among European citizens. It is responsible for more than 400,000 premature deaths in Europe each year and considerably damages human health, agriculture, and the natural environment ...
Teresa Schaefer   +2 more
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Interpreter use in sustained nurse home visiting: interpreter experience and support

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of healthcare interpreters working with child and family health nurses (CFHNs) in providing child and family health nursing (CFHN) services and sustained nurse home visiting (SNHV) programs ...
Mehrnoush Bonakdar Tehrani   +5 more
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How to include schools in citizen science health studies: Practical experiences and lessons learned [PDF]

open access: yesARPHA Proceedings
STEAM education is gaining increasing significance in science education and educational policies throughout Europe as it aims to equip young learners with relevant skills and knowledge to tackle global challenges effectively.
Teresa Schaefer   +3 more
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Social innovation-as-practice: establishing a social innovation program at a university

open access: yesManagement şi Marketing, 2022
Creating a culture for social innovation in universities can involve formalising and internalising processes that aim to support efforts towards using research results in society.
Elisabeth M. C. Svennevik, Trust Saidi
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S&T Cooperation between the EU and Ukraine: Benefits and Barriers

open access: yesForesight and STI Governance, 2011
This paper concerns the misalignments in science citation indexes, which are increasingly used to assess research performance and the efficiency of S&T policy.
Michel Le Gohebel   +3 more
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Rethinking impact assessment in citizen science [PDF]

open access: yesARPHA Proceedings
Why are people still struggling with effectively demonstrating the wide and diverse impact of their citizen science activities? After many years of developing impact assessment frameworks, models, and guidelines it seems that capturing the manifold ...
Barbara Kieslinger   +3 more
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A New Player for Tackling Inequalities? Framing the Social Value and Impact of the Maker Movement

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2020
The Maker Movement has raised great expectations towards its potential for tackling social inequalities by mediating technology-related skills to everybody. Are maker spaces new players for social inclusion in digital societies?
Elisabeth Unterfrauner   +3 more
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Social impact bonds: From social innovation to responsible finance innovation

open access: yesTrilogía Ciencia Tecnología Sociedad, 2015
social innovations are becoming an increasing drain on national public budgets and require new innovative policies. A financial instrument called Social Impact Bonds could be useful to overcome this barrier.
Pablo Matías Herrera
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Environmental Management, Green Innovation, and Social–Open Innovation

open access: yesJournal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity, 2021
The present study aims to determine the impact of green innovation (GI) on the overall performance of an organization while keeping the variable of environmental management (EM) as a moderator.
Pham Thu Huong   +5 more
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