Title New frontiers in social innovation research / edited by Alex Nicholls, Julie Simon, and Madeleine Gabriel.

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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Summary	This book is open access under a CC BY license. Interest in social innovation is growing, yet theory lags behind practice. This collection helps bridge that gap, compiling work by leading social innovation researchers to build understanding of the nature and effects of social innovation.
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Contents	Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword: The Study of Social Innovation -- Theory, Practice and Progress; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Dimensions of Social Innovation; Part I: Researching Social Innovation; 1 Social Innovations as Drivers of Social Change -- Exploring Tarde's Contribution to Social Innovation Theory Building; 2 At the Root of Change: The History of Social Innovation; 3 A Relational Database to Understand Social Innovation and Its Impact on Social Transformation; Part II: Blurring Boundaries and Reconfiguring Relations.
	4 Social Innovation: Redesigning the Welfare Diamond5 Social Innovation for Social Cohesion; 6 Collaborative Services in Informal Settlements: Social Innovation in a Pacified Favela in Rio de Janeiro; Part III: Producing Social Innovation through New Forms of Collaboration; 7 Enhancing Public Innovation through Collaboration, Leadership and New Public Governance; 8 Seoul City's Social Innovation Strategy: New Models of Communication to Strengthen Citizen Engagement; 9 Can Collective Intelligence Produce Social Innovation?; 10 The Usefulness of Networks: A Study of Social Innovation in India.
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Subject	Social entrepreneurship.
	Social change.
	Diffusion of innovations -- Social aspects.
	Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
	Business innovation.
	Society & social sciences.
	Entrepreneurship.
	Working patterns & practices.
	Philanthropy & Charity.
	General.
	Entrepreneurship.
	Public Policy/Social Policy.
	Diffusion of innovations -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00893558
	Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
	Social entrepreneurship. (OCoLC)fst01739007
	Technological innovations -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01145049
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Nicholls, Alex, editor.
	Caulier-Grice, Julie, editor.
	Gabriel, Madeleine, editor.
Other Form:	Print version: New frontiers in social innovation research 9781137506795 (DLC) 2015014422 (OCoLC)908192640
ISBN	9781137506801 (electronic book)
	1137506806 (electronic book)
	9781137506818
	1137506814
	9781137549532 (print)
	9781137506795 (print)
	1137506792 (print)
	113754953X (print)
Standard No.	10.1007/978-1-137-50680-1 doi

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