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Social Innovation Canada will create a unique, inclusive and open movement to put people and planet first. It will provide the collaborative infrastructure to strengthen Canada’s social innovation ecosystem, empowering people, organizations and systems with the tools, knowledge, skills and connections that they need to solve real and complex problems. Initiative pancanadienne émergente visant à connecter les praticiens de l'innovation sociale, à renforcer les capacités de notre secteur et à élever ce travail au Canada et au-delà.

L’innovation sociale continue de faire appel à des définitions plurielles. Une majorité s’accorde à dire qu’elle élabore des réponses nouvelles à des besoins sociaux mal ou peu satisfaits dans tous les secteurs : alimentation, mobilité, énergie, habitat, environnement, santé… Portée par différents acteurs, l’innovation sociale apporte des solutions efficaces à des enjeux complexes auxquels ni l’Etat, ni le marché ne peuvent répondre seuls.

L'innovation sociale consiste à élaborer de nouveaux projets, services et modèles afin de mieux répondre aux questions sociales. Les citoyens et les partenaires du secteur privé, notamment la société civile, sont invités à apporter leur contribution pour améliorer les services sociaux.

Changement qui a été effectué par une organisation ou une communauté, dans son approche ou dans ses pratiques, en vue de favoriser le mieux-être des individus et des collectivités ou de trouver une solution à un problème social en sortant des pratiques courantes.

Une innovation sociale est une nouvelle idée, approche ou intervention, un nouveau service, un nouveau produit ou une nouvelle loi, un nouveau type d’organisation qui répond plus adéquatement et plus durablement que les solutions existantes à un besoin social bien défini, une solution qui a trouvé preneur au sein d’une institution, d’une organisation ou d’une communauté et qui produit un bénéfice mesurable pour la collectivité et non seulement pour certains individus. La portée d’une innovation sociale est transformatrice et systémique. Elle constitue, dans sa créativité inhérente, une rupture avec l’existant.

Social innovation is the process of developing and deploying effective solutions to challenging and often systemic social and environmental issues in support of social progress. Social innovation is not the prerogative or privilege of any organizational form or legal structure. Solutions often require the active collaboration of constituents across government, business, and the nonprofit world.

Background Social innovations in health are inclusive solutions to address the healthcare delivery gap that meet the needs of end users through a multi-stakeholder, community-engaged process. While social innovations for health have shown promise in closing the healthcare delivery gap, more research is needed to evaluate, scale up, and sustain social innovation. Research checklists can standardize and improve reporting of research findings, promote transparency, and increase replicability of study results and findings. Methods and findings The research checklist was developed through a 3-step community-engaged process, including a global open call for ideas, a scoping review, and a 3-round modified Delphi process. The call for entries solicited checklists and related items and was open between November 27, 2019 and February 1, 2020. In addition to the open call submissions and scoping review findings, a 17-item Social Innovation For Health Research (SIFHR) Checklist was developed based on the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) Checklist. The checklist was then refined during 3 rounds of Delphi surveys conducted between May and June 2020. The resulting checklist will facilitate more complete and transparent reporting, increase end-user engagement, and help assess social innovation projects. A limitation of the open call was requiring internet access, which likely discouraged participation of some subgroups. Conclusions The SIFHR Checklist will strengthen the reporting of social innovation for health research studies. More research is needed on social innovation for health.

Cette recherche vise à comprendre le processus de coproduction d’innovations sociales dans le contexte des plateformes numériques. À travers l’étude de la plateforme "Solidarité Covid-19 Francophonie", nous analysons comment l’intelligence artificielle facilite la collaboration entre des acteurs de cultures différentes et/ou développant des projets dans des domaines variés. Les résultats de l’étude ethnographique, complétée par une analyse quantitative, révèlent le développement des pratiques collaboratives grâce aux différents types de connecteurs, humains ou non-humains, qui organisent les échanges et facilitent la circulation de ressources affectives et cognitives. De manière paradoxale, l’analyse montre la difficulté de la plateforme à inclure certains publics.

De la recherche à l’action Le Réseau Impact Recherche Canada est un réseau pancanadien qui se consacre à maximiser les impacts de la recherche universitaire pour le bien collectif. Découvrez notre travail ! Ressources Consultez notre banque d’outils de mobilisation des connaissances évalués par les pairs. Cours Suivez une série de modules pratiques en ligne, [...]Lire la suite...

Pour atteindre ses objectifs, il est crucial que le Québec place la recherche et développement (R&D) au cœur de sa démarche. La science doit être au centre des décisions. Dans cette optique, la recherche-action, issue d’une collaboration entre acteurs de la recherche et des milieux de pratique, doit continuer à représenter une avenue de choix pour développer des connaissances axées sur les besoins du terrain. L’organisation des ateliers du forum fait d’ailleurs état de 1. Introduction : grandes lignes du forum cette volonté partenariale. Il est enfin nécessaire d’adopter une approche de sensibilisation et de communication qui soit positive. Ceci en axant le discours autour de la protection de l’environnement

La majorité des cas d'activités réalisées en partenariat ou impliquant un partenaire industriel, gouvernemental ou universitaire, nécessite la signature d'un contrat. Que ce soit pour la réalisation d'un projet de recherche, pour offrir un service de recherche ou pour partager des informations confidentielles ou du matériel, le contrat permet d'établir clairement les obligations et les droits des divers participants. Dans la présente section, vous trouverez de l'information concernant les principaux types de contrats et d'ententes que l'Université est invitée à négocier.

Cet article s’intéresse aux modes d’interactions entre recherches et société et à la prise en considération de la diversité des productions de connaissances et savoirs. Au lieu d’être fondées sur des relations verticales, où seuls les savoirs reconnus comme scientifiques sont vecteurs de progrès (voir l’article de Marcel Jollivet, p. 61), ces interactions peuvent prendre la forme de recherches participatives construites sur des relations plus horizontales qui font place aux savoirs expérientiels. Dans le premier cas, ces interactions sont des médiations à sens unique alors que, dans le second, il s’agit d’intermédiations au sein de collectifs hybrides réunissant chercheurs et acteurs de la société civile. Les échanges et rapports sociaux au sein de ces collectifs dépendent de « savoirs » radicalement différents, selon que l’on se situe à l’échelle individuelle ou sociétale

University students will be our future business leaders, and will have to address social problems caused by business by implementing solutions such as social entrepreneurship ventures. In order to facilitate the learning process that will foster social entrepreneurship, however, a more holistic pedagogy is needed. Based on learning theory, we propose that students' social entrepreneurship actions will depend on their learning about CSR and their absorptive capacity. We propose that instructors and higher education institutions can enhance this absorptive capacity by exploiting Web 2.0 technologies. We tested our proposition with a sample of 425 university students using structural equation modeling and found support for the proposed relationships.

Social responsibility is at the core of modern Information Systems (IS) education due to increased attention by society on the ethics, human factors, and social consequences of emerging technologies. With the acknowledgement that most IS education falls short along these areas, this paper sheds light on the application of Social Learning and Social Innovation-based Learning in socially responsible IS Education. The connectivism principles were used to develop a learning model based on social innovation that was then tested by the example of an upper-division course (Systems Analysis) at a state university. The case study results suggested that the proposed learning model can help students to not only see information systems as social systems but also consider themselves as catalysts for positive change enabled by these systems. The findings also confirmed the positive impact of the proposed intervention on students' social skills. This study contributes to the future of IS education by proposing social innovation-based learning as a practical education paradigm for the digital economy.

Over the past few decades, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been perceived as an antecedent of competitive advantage. It was, moreover, placed at the top of the business agenda and recognized as a key driver of performance. Under this context, the present study sets to investigate how strategic CSR (SCSR) affects organizational performance and whether firms operating in “controversial” sectors should adopt SCSR activities. To this aim, this study reviews the body of knowledge on the topic, through a systematic review of the literature. After searching for academic publications in the Scopus database and selecting publications based on their relevance, 32 studies have been included in the review. Their analysis sheds light on common findings and contradicting arguments. Results show the main attributes of strategic, as opposed to non-strategic CSR activities. The importance of effective communication of SCSR activities is highlighted. SCSR is linked to “shared value”, as well as to competitive advantage, social innovation and good reputation. Voices of criticism focus on using SCSR as an empty promise that is used to counteract unethical behavior. Finally, more research is needed on the implementation of SCSR activities during recessionary periods.

People Centered Social Innovation: Global perspectives on an Emerging Paradigm attempts to revisit and extend the existing understanding of Social Innovation in practice by focusing upon the lived realities of marginalized groups and communities. The emerging field of people-centered development is placed in dialogue with theory and concepts from the more established field of social innovation to create a new approach; one that adopts a global perspective, engaging with very different experiences of marginality across the global north and south. Theoretically, ‘People Centered Social Innovation: Global Perspectives on an Emerging Paradigm’ draws upon ‘northern’ understandings of change and improvement as well as ‘southern’ theory concerns for epistemological diversity and meaning making. The result is an experiment aimed at reimagining research and practice that seriously needs to center the actor in processes of social transformation.

This essay revisits the historical development of a concept – tecnologia social – as one avenue for discussing alternatives to post-development, arguing that the Western-based historical path of technology development is one of the main sources of growing human impoverishment, social inequalities and economic dependency. The concept of tecnologia social points towards political processes that create opportunities to redefine the arrangements among social groups, artefacts and methods used in everyday life, particularly for production and consumption. Because the post-development debate has been criticised for formulating a sound and strong critique to mainstream development but failing to propose concrete empirical alternatives, we seek to foster the debate through the Latin American concept of tecnologia social.

In social sciences, similarly to other fields, there is exponential growth of literature and textual data that people are no more able to cope with in a systematic manner. In many areas there is a need to catalogue knowledge and phenomena in a certain area. However, social science concepts and phenomena are complex and in many cases there is a dispute in the field between conflicting definitions. In this paper we present a method that catalogues a complex and disputed concept of social innovation by applying text mining and machine learning techniques. Recognition of social innovations is performed by decomposing a definitions into several more specific criteria (social objectives, social actor interactions, outputs and innovativeness). For each of these criteria, a machine learning-based classifier is created that checks whether certain text satisfies given criteria. The criteria can be successfully classified with an F1-score of 0.83–0.86. The presented method is flexible, since it allows combining criteria in a later stage in order to build and analyse the definition of choice.