Evaluating Social Innovation [PDF]
, 2012 The philanthropic sector has been experimenting with innovative grantmaking in the hopes of triggering significant and sustainable change. FSG's latest research report, collaboratively written with the Center for Evaluation Innovation, challenges ...
Hallie Preskill, Tanya Beer
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Rethinking impact assessment in citizen science [PDF]
ARPHA ProceedingsWhy 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
Social 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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The Model of Creating Social Innovation in Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation with the Classical Grounded Theory Approach [PDF]
پژوهشهای مدیریت عمومی, 2022 Social innovation as a new paradigm in the field of innovation creates social value, promotes greater welfare and develops capacities and capabilities and solves social challenges and social organizations are one of the most effective actors in creating ...
Ali Afrouznia +3 more
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Social impact bonds: From social innovation to responsible finance innovation
Trilogía 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
Journal 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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Social capital and rural innovation process. The evaluation of the measure 124 \u201cCooperation for Development of New Products, Processes and Technologies in the Agriculture, Food and Forestry Sector\u201d in the Umbria Region (Italy) [PDF]
, 2016 The most recent theories on innovation point out the role of social networks, demonstrating how knowledge is intertwined with network communities and social capital represents an essential factor to comprehend innovation.
Cecchini, L. +4 more
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Social Innovation Capital [PDF]
Journal of Intellectual Capital, 2002 Current conceptions of how to measure and manage intellectual capital (IC) suffer from a failure to take “social capital” rigorously into account. This is a shortcoming of current thinking in the IC arena. Of particular concern is the absence of “social innovation capital” (SIC) from the scope of leading IC schemes.
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Analysing the Social Innovation Process – The Methodology of Social Innovation Biographies
European Public & Social Innovation Review, 2017 The dynamics of social innovation processes are of a complex nature and an underdeveloped research field. Social Innovation Biographies (SIBs) are a valuable methodology to reflect the evolutionary character of the dynamics of the social initiatives ...
Maria Kleverbeck, , Judith Terstriep
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How social innovation “came to be”: tracing the evolution of a contested concept [PDF]
, 2016 Social innovation is a contested concept with multiple meanings that have implications beyond academia. It is not a new term – its sociological heritage can be dated to the late nineteenth century.
Ayob, Noorseha +2 more
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