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Social innovation, social enterprise, and local public services: undertaking transformation? [PDF]

, 2018
This article discusses some of the challenges encountered in embedding effective and sustainable social enterprise and social innovation within established political institutional systems to deliver local welfare services.
Ayob, Battilana, Bunt, Casebourne, Caulier-Grice, Chalmers, Conger, Crowley, Dart, Defourny, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Dey, Dey, Doherty, Dubois, Evers, Froggett, Gibson-Graham, Goldstein, Greenhalgh, GSEN and Social Value Lab, Hartley, Hazenberg, Hoogendoorn, Howaldt, Hulgård, INNOSERV, Kerlin, Leadbeater, Leadbeater, Lindsay, Lynn, McHugh, Moore, Moulaert, Mulgan, Naughton, Neal, Nicholls, Nicholls, Nicholls, Norman, Osborne, Peirce, Phills, Roy, Ruddat, Schumpeter, Scottish Government, Seanor, Sinclair, Sisson, Social Enterprise UK, Steiner, Teasdale, Viebrock, Wallace, Weber, Yunus   +58 more
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Collective Agency in the Making: How Social Innovations in the Food System Practice Democracy beyond Consumption

Politics and Governance, 2019
As the deleterious impacts of conventional food systems on areas including public health, environmental sustainability, and farmers’ livelihoods are progressively unveiled, citizen-led initiatives have ubiquitously sprouted, collectively building what is
Paula Fernandez-Wulff
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A trajectory of social innovations for the direct purchase of organic food by food services: a case study in Florianópolis, Brazil

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
IntroductionAlthough interest in the so-called short food supply chains (SFSC) has grown in recent decade, studies and social innovations that emerged from this phenomenon have made little progress in involving food actors outside the home.
Adevan da Silva Pugas, Oscar José Rover, Suellen Secchi Martinelli, Francele Contarini Teodolino   +3 more
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Social and Political Innovations in the Development of Interaction between the Authorities and the Population during COVID-19: The Implication of Open Innovation

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity, 2021
: Open innovations combine the interaction of the authorities and the population in regions of Russia. Social and political interaction of Russian network users demonstrates new open forms of political participation, mobilization practices (initiative ...
Elena Kranzeeva, Evgeny Golovatsky, Anna Orlova, Natalia Nyatina, Anna Burmakina   +4 more
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Modelling diffusion of innovations in a social network [PDF]

, 2002
A new simple model of diffusion of innovations in a social network with upgrading costs is introduced. Agents are characterized by a single real variable, their technological level.
A. Arenas, A. Arenas, A. Díaz-Guilera, C. J. Pérez, D. Challet, J. Goldenberg, M. Llas, S. Galam, S. Lise, T. Lux, T.W. Valente, V.M. Eguíluz, X. Guardiola   +12 more
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Sparking Social Innovations [PDF]

, 2010
{Excerpt} Necessity is the mother of invention. The demand for good ideas, put into practice, that meet pressing unmet needs and improve people’s lives is growing on a par with the agenda of the 21st century.
Serrat, Olivier
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Carcinomas and Carcinoid Tumors of the Lungs and Bronchi in Children and Adolescents: The EXPeRT Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary lung carcinomas and bronchial carcinoid tumors (BC) are very rare malignancies in childhood. While typical BC and mucoepidermoid carcinomas are mostly low‐grade, localized tumors with a more favorable prognosis than in adults, necessitating avoidance of overtreatment, adenocarcinomas of the lung are often diagnosed at advanced disease ...
Michael Abele, Calogero Virgone, Michaela Kuhlen, Sabine Irtan, Yves Reguerre, Malgorzata Krawczyk, Ewa Bien, Tal Ben‐Ami, Maja Cesen, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Andrea Ferrari, Gianni Bisogno, Dominik T. Schneider, Abbas Agaimy, Constantin Lapa, Hubert Ducou le Pointe, Rainer Claus, Catherine Daniel, Ines B. Brecht, Daniel Orbach   +19 more
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European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen, Calogero Virgone, Antje Redlich, Michael Abele, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Gianni Bisogno, Maja Mazic Cesen, Andrea Ferrari, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Ines B. Brecht, Charlotte Rigaud, Bilgehan Yalcin, Rainer Claus, Christian Vokuhl, Constantin Lapa, Jörg Fuchs, Segolene Hescot, Thomas Walter, Julien Hadoux, Daniel Orbach   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Competitive dynamics of lexical innovations in multi-layer networks

, 2014
We study the introduction of lexical innovations into a community of language users. Lexical innovations, i.e., new terms added to people's vocabulary, play an important role in the process of language evolution. Nowadays, information is spread through a
Javarone, Marco Alberto
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Social innovation: worklessness, welfare and well-being [PDF]

, 2014
The UK Government has recently implemented large-scale public-sector funding cuts and substantial welfare reform. Groups within civil society are being encouraged to fill gaps in service provision, and ‘social innovation’ has been championed as a means ...
Armendaáriz de Aghion, Bambra, Baumberg, Borzaga, Clementine Hill O'Connor, Collins, Dees, Defourny, Dobbie, Duvendack, Goldstein, Grimm, Hill O'Connor, Khatibi, Lenton, MacCallum, Marmot, Marmot, Marmot, McKinlay, McLean, Michael J. Roy, Mulgan, Neil McHugh, Odell, Ray, Rees, Shaw, Sibbald, Spear, Whitehead   +30 more
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