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Avec le pr é sent avis, le Conseil conclut – au moins provisoirement – le cycle des travaux introduits en d é cembre 1997 avec la parution du Rapport de conjoncture 1998 : Pour une politique qu é b é coise de l ’ innovation . Cet avis, Innovation sociale et innovation technologique : l ’ apport de la recherche en sciences sociales et humaines traite de deux th è mes certes fort distincts, mais tout de m ê me apparen- t é s. D ’ une part, il attire l ’ attention sur le caract è re essentiel de la contribution des sciences sociales et humaines à la compr é hension des faits et des probl è mes de culture, d ’ organisa- tion et de soci é t é , de m ê me que sur leur r ô le dans la conception et la mise en œ uvre de pratiques sociales novatrices, c ’ est- à -dire d ’ innovations sociales . D ’ autre part, il rappelle que les sciences sociales et humaines ont aussi une contribution non moins essentielle à apporter à la compr é hension et à la gestion de l ’ innovation technologi- que , qui est un processus organisationnel et social, et non seulement technoscientifique. Plusieurs des avis ant é rieurs du Conseil avaient d é j à soulign é que les questions de gestion et d ’ organisation du travail sont au c œ ur du processus d ’ innovation technologique et condition- nent largement son succ è s. Toutefois, le Conseil n ’ avait pas jusqu ’ ici au m ê me degr é insist é sur le r ô le capital de l ’ innovation sociale. Les politiques publiques, l ’ organisation des services sociaux ou l ’ organisation scolaire et la vie p é dagogique sont, parmi beaucoup d ’ autres, sans cesse et à juste titre, des objets de pr é occupation dans la vie civique et les d é bats de soci é t é . Ce sont des domaines en demande d ’ innovations sociales. La pertinence et l ’ efficacit é de ces innovations dans les organisations et les pratiques seront largement fonction de la qualit é de notre compr é hension des ph é no- m è nes de soci é t é et des comportements, c ’ est- à -dire de la vigueur et de la qualit é de notre recours à la recherche en sciences sociales et humaines et de notre succ è s à en valoriser les r é sultats. Dans cet avis, le Conseil est tout à fait conscient de ne pas avoir trait é dans toute son ampleur la question du r ô le de la recherche en sciences sociales et humaines. Son objet est circonscrit (ainsi il ne traite pas des probl è mes de la formation, non plus que du r ô le proprement culturel de ces sciences). Il s ’ attache à fournir un é clairage sur leur contribution à l ’ innovation technologique et à l ’ innovation sociale. C ’ est notre conviction que cette contribution est tout à fait essentielle.

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Interest in social innovation continues to rise, from governments setting up social innovation 'labs' to large corporations developing social innovation strategies. Yet theory lags behind practice, and this hampers our ability to understand social innovation and make the most of its potential. This collection brings together work by leading social innovation researchers globally, exploring the practice and process of researching social innovation, its nature and effects. Combining theoretical chapters and empirical studies, it shows how social innovation is blurring traditional boundaries between the market, the state and civil society, thereby developing new forms of services, relationships and collaborations. It takes a critical perspective, analyzing potential downsides of social innovation that often remain unexplored or are glossed over, yet concludes with a powerful vision of the potential for social innovation to transform society. It aims to be a valuable resource for students and researchers, as well as policymakers and others supporting and leading social innovation.

This book is about the many ways in which people are creating new and more effective answers to the biggest challenges of our times: how to cut our carbon footprint; how to keep people healthy; how to end poverty. It describes the methods and tools for innovation being used across the world and across the different sectors – the public and private sectors, civil society and the household – and in the overlapping fields of the social economy, social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. It draws on inputs from hundreds of organisations around the world to document the many methods currently being used. In other fields, methods for innovation are well-understood. In medicine, science, and business, there are widely accepted ideas, tools and approaches. But despite the richness and vitality of social innovation, there is little comparable in the social field. Most people trying to innovate are aware of only a fraction of the methods they could be using. This book provides a first mapping of these methods and of the conditions that will enable social innovation to flourish.

Reviews the social role of universities in the urban context Covers themes and models of major interest Explains how to ensure a legacy of grassroots initiatives

Discusses the measurement of innovation and the use of the resulting indicators to shape policy, exploring whether innovation can be measured everywhere, not just in the business sector, in a rapidly changing world. Reviews systems, innovation, and innovation policy. Details current innovation policies. Describes scoreboards and their use for monitoring existing innovation policy. Focuses on the implementation of innovation policy. Presents the general definition of innovation applicable in all economic sectors and considers the importance of language in the innovation discourse. Provides the conceptual framework for the specification of the statistical measurement of innovation. Addresses non-sector-specific innovation in the informal economy, green economy, social innovation, and innovation resulting from the use of general-purpose technologies. Examines global challenges for innovation such as sustainability restrictions. Considers the future of innovation in the digital economy, informal economy, and social innovation. Gault is Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT, Professor Extraordinary at Tshwane University of Technology, and Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg. Index.

An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival. What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice? "Design justice" is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims explicitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities. It has emerged from a growing community of designers in various fields who work closely with social movements and community-based organizations around the world. This book explores the theory and practice of design justice, demonstrates how universalist design principles and practices erase certain groups of people--specifically, those who are intersectionally disadvantaged or multiply burdened under the matrix of domination (white supremacist heteropatriarchy, ableism, capitalism, and settler colonialism)--and invites readers to "build a better world, a world where many worlds fit; linked worlds of collective liberation and ecological sustainability." Along the way, the book documents a multitude of real-world community-led design practices, each grounded in a particular social movement. Design Justice goes beyond recent calls for design for good, user-centered design, and employment diversity in the technology and design professions; it connects design to larger struggles for collective liberation and ecological survival.

Ten papers consider new sources of entrepreneurial finance, highlighting angel investors, government interventions, financial technology innovations, and how entrepreneurs' characteristics relate to fundraising success. Papers discuss the role of angel syndicates on the demand and supply of informal venture capital (VC); government intervention in VC markets; the validity of guarantee instruments; green project crowdfunding; linguistic style approaches for gaining empathetic attention from crowdfunding investors; blockchain, cryptocurrency, and initial coin offerings; the development of the minibond market for small and medium-sized enterprises; facilitating access to early-stage equity financing in developing countries; the financial literacy of entrepreneurs; and the pedagogical value of social entrepreneurship competitions at the individual level. Quas is Senior Researcher in Corporate Finance at Universita degli Studi di Milano. Alperovych is Associate Professor of Corporate Finance at EMLYON Business School. Bellavitis is Lecturer of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Faculty of Management and International Business of Auckland Business School at the University of Auckland. Paeleman is Assistant Professor at the University of Antwerp. Kamuriwo is Associate Professor in Strategy in the Cass Business School at City, University of London. Index.

- Features interdisciplinary expertise from economics, law, technology and social science on the practice of co-creation - Provides best-practices and management approaches to successful co-creation - Enables research-based and practice-relevant understanding of the background and concepts around co-creation

La necessité d'innover dans le secteur public. Peut‐on faire plus avec moins? C’est une question qui ne date p as d’hier pour les gouvernements. Malgré l’embellie budgétaire récente, le gouvernement du Québec devra faire plus avec moins dans les décennies à venir. La trop lente croissance économique ainsi que le vieil lissement de la population vont le forcer à changer ses façons de faire. Pour pouvoir faire plus avec moins , il va devoir innover. Certaines de ses organisations ont démontré que c’était possible. Il faut passer de ces réussites ponctuelles à un modèle plus général. C’est ce qui est proposé en conclusion de ce rapp ort de recherche. Un tel changement nécessite de repenser un certain nombre d’habitudes, de règles, de structures. Il n’est pas question ici d’une révolution administrative mais de changer graduellement et itérativement, que des innovations entraînent les suivantes. C’est ce que font de nombreux gouvern ements en ce moment pris dans la même problématique d’ensemble. De plu s, les technologies de l’inform ation vont aider à innover. Elles rendent possible une meilleure coordination d’ensemble que par le passé et peuvent libérer d’un certain nombre de tâches les employés du secteur public. Outre faire plus avec moins en changeant les façons de faire, il pourrait être aussi possible de mieux faire en innovant. Ce que ce rapport propose en conclusion est un modèle d’innovation dans le secteur public basé sur une recensi on importante des écrits et un travail empirique sur les prix de la gestion innovatrice qui poursuit n os publications antérieures (Bernier, Hafsi et Deschamps, 2013 et 2015). Nous proposons ici une analyse par ticulière des données sur le Québec que nous avons mises à jour pour lan cer la proposition qui suit. Il est présumé que l’innovation dans le secteur public peut con tribuer à améliorer la qualité des services et la capacité de faire face aux enjeux des organisations qui s e heurtent aux turbulences de l’évolution de la société et de l’économie. « L’innovation est l’ensemble du processus se déroulant depuis la naissance d’une idée jusqu’à sa matérialisation. Un État innovant est un État favorisant la naissance de nouvelles idées et les mettant en œuvre pour améliorer son organisation e t ses façons de faire. Un État performant au service de l’intérêt commun et du bien‐être de la population doit être un État innovant. » (Gouvernement du Québec, 2015, p. 80). Le plan économique du Québec présenté en mars 2016 énumérait si x objectifs. Le premier est le maintien de l’équilibre budgétaire et le deuxième est l’établissement de la croissance des dépenses en fonction de la capacité de payer des contribuables, en priorisant les deux grandes missions de l’État québécois, l’éducation et la santé. Le budget 2017 poursuit dans la même v eine. Le gouvernement consacre aux missions « Santé et services sociaux » ainsi que « Éducation et culture » 60 des 100 milliards de dollars qu’il dépense en 2016‐17 1 et ils doivent faire partie de la solution. On prévoit mainten ir l’équilibre budgétaire au cours des prochaines années en contrôlant le rythme d’augmentation des dépenses. Pour ce faire, on peut augmenter les contrôles, comme ce fut souvent le cas dans le passé, mais cette méthode a démontré ses limites. On pourrait aussi faire les choses autrement. En d’autres mots, on pourrait innover. Mulgan et Albury (2003) , dans un texte qui a été beauc oup cité, suggèrent qu’une innovation réussie est « the creation and implementation of new processes, products, services and methods of delivery which result in significant improvements in outcomes efficiency, effectiveness or quality ».

Design has always played a role in the process of production, transformations in society and the economy, shifts in technology and impacts on the environment. The nature of the changes created by our post-industrial era is challenging the character of design and its role in society. The post-industrial era is creating complex projects for technology, service, systems, strategy and products. Clients are even becoming undefined stakeholders, and this can be extended to the entire community and the environment. The rise of digital technology and the knowledge society are introducing a new culture, which can be open, participatory, shared and collaborative. Here the designer is acting as a researcher, always questioning the character of the project, its outcomes and process. Open access, co-design, crowdfunding, digital manufacturing, open-source, DIY, enabling systems and networking can be included in the toolbox of the designer and can create opportunities to drive the change towards sustainability, equity and democracy. Social innovation is leveraging forms of collaboration and co-production in which designers, innovators, users and communities co-create knowledge and solutions for a wide range of social needs, exploiting the networking technologies. This book explores a number of areas where design can contribute to face the contemporary transformations in our society with real-life collaborative research and innovation projects. Through a number of Canadian social innovation case studies collected in social, environmental and technological fields, we recognize how the role of the designer cannot be limited to the production of finished objects; rather, designers can create tools and platforms to help users and citizens participate in projects, even allowing forms of personalization

The role of big finance and technology in social change is rapidly evolving. This book examines why large financial players are entering the social sector through social finance. Drawing on empirical research, the authors analyse the opportunities this new interest and commitment presents as well as the potential harm that can be done to vulnerable people when beneficiaries are not treated as partners and the social needs of people are not placed at the centre of the investment model. This book introduces a ‘Deliberate Leadership’ framework to help big finance tackle problems with no easy solutions. The book also analyses how current technologies (including blockchain) are being used and the benefits and drawbacks of different features of these technologies from the standpoint of the beneficiary and investor. The authors derive a series of insights into the model of technology for social finance and impact investing. Written as a practical book for students alongside a field book based on an action learning methodology, this volume will be useful to those in social finance and impact investing.

Twelve papers examine knowledge, learning, and innovation in order to enhance competitiveness. Papers also explore perspectives of cross-sector collaboration, intrafirm and interfirm connections, gender, and relational marketing. Papers discuss knowledge, learning, and innovation--research into cross-sector collaboration; entrepreneurial competencies and firm performance in emerging economies--a study of women entrepreneurs in Malaysia; whether online cocreation influences lead users' and opinion leaders' behaviors; knowledge and innovation in Portuguese enterprises; social ties and human capital in family small- and medium-sized entrepreneurial internationalization; perceived social support and social entrepreneurship--gender perspectives from Turkey; entrepreneurship challenges and gender issues in the African informal rural economy; the construction of a professional identity of a female entrepreneur; knowledge creation and relationship marketing in family businesses--a case-study approach; the gender question and family entrepreneurship research; a composite-index approach to detecting reporting quality--the case of female executives in family firms; and influencing factors in customers' intention to revisit resort hotels--the roles of customer experience management and customer value. Ratten is Associate Professor at La Trobe University. Braga is Associate Professor of the Technology and Management at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. Marques is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Innovation, Markets and Organization Research Group in the Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies at the University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro. No index.

This book explores the nexus between professional technical societies and engineering education by examining several societies' efforts to promote and support engineering and engineering education in the areas of pre-university education, university education and informal education through programs and activities designed to leverage social innovation. Professional societies are in a unique position to support and contribute to engineering education, and have dedicated substantial resources to social responsibility programs and activities that promote engineers and engineering. The book is chiefly intended for engineers, engineering educators, staff members of professional technical societies, and for the broad range of scholars whose work involves technology education and education policy.

Rapid changes in business along with better informed customers threaten the traditional sales and procurement process. Thousands of sales and procurement people are threatened with extinction, yet all is not destined to be doom and gloom. A new way of partnering between these two roles can, in fact, create significant value for both organizations. Sales and procurement professionals have a bright future ahead of them if they can respond to six trends that the authors have identified in the business-to-business world. Each trend offers an opportunity to develop a new skill for sales and procurement professionals and adopt a new practice. Because these practices are not yet widely adopted as "best practices", the authors coin them "next practices." These trends include: working together to solve complex problems; organizing problem-solving networks across company boundaries; creating processes for live cross-company engagement; facilitating data driven, cross-company interactions fed by digital platforms; providing new personal experiences for individuals and lastly (and most importantly) creating new sources of value for firms. If these trends are adopted by organizations, the ability to co-create means providing significant value to both the sales management team at the supplier and the purchasing management team at the customer. With the alternative being that these job functions will be replaced by web-based or channel-based alternatives that will do most of what they do today at a fraction of the cost. Increasingly, there is no middle ground anymore. SAMs and senior buyers will either evolve into high value-added sales and procurement professionals, or disappear.

This book explores how the State can play a role as an enabler of citizens-led social innovations, to accelerate the shift to sustainable and socially just lifestyles. To meet the twin challenges of environmental degradation and the rise of inequalities, societal transformation is urgent. Most theories of social change focus either on the role of the State, on the magic of the market, or on the power of technological innovation. This book explores instead how local communities, given the freedom to experiment, can design solutions that can have a transformative impact. Change cannot rely only on central ordering by government, nor on corporations suddenly acting as responsible citizens. Societal transformation, at the speed and scope required, also should be based on the reconstitution of social capital, and on new forms of democracy emerging from collective action at the local level. The State matters of course, for the provision of both public services and of social protection, and to discipline the market, but it should also act as an enabler of citizen-led experimentation, and it should set up an institutional apparatus to ensure that collective learning spreads across jurisdictions. Corporations themselves can ensure that society taps the full potential of citizens-led social innovations: they can put their know-how, their access to finance, and their control of logistical chains in the service of such innovations, rather than focusing on shaping consumers’ tastes or even adapting to consumers’ shifting expectations. With this aim in mind, this book provides empirical evidence of how social innovations, typically developed within "niches", initially at a relatively small scale, can have society-wide impacts. It also examines the nature of the activism deployed by social innovators, and the emergence of a "do-it-yourself" form of democracy. This book will appeal to all those interested in driving societal change and social innovation to ensure a sustainable and socially just future for all.

es innovations sociales, à la manière de bougies d'allumage, engendrent des actions collectives qui proposent des solutions différentes de celles des pratiques dominantes aptes à générer la transformation sociale. Cet ouvrage expose les enjeux que pose la transformation sociale par l'innovation sociale et les documente par des illustrations ciblées sur des thématiques ou des expériences précises.

Cet ouvrage collectif a comme objectif de mettre en lumière le travail mené par les personnes et les organisations qui s’engagent à construire le futur en devenant des codéveloppeurs, acceptant par là même qu’elles ne possèdent qu’une partie des connaissances nécessaires aux projets qu’elles portent et bâtissent. Pour répondre à des besoins sociétaux de plus en plus complexes, de multiples institutions publiques et privées expérimentent ces nouveaux modes d’action inclusifs, qui consistent à travailler avec les parties prenantes des projets plutôt que de travailler pour celles-ci, afin d’ériger des biens communs et de s’assurer de leur usage. L’innovation collective : quand créer avec devient essentiel explore ces pratiques novatrices qui conjuguent audace, diversité et réalisme. Les projets dont il est question touchent à la ville, à la santé, au droit, au tourisme, au développement international, au commerce, à la technologie et à la recherche. Après avoir traité de l’innovation collective et de ses représentations, le livre aborde ses enjeux et ses échelles d’action, décortique certains dispositifs déployés pour créer avec et discute des rôles des acteurs engagés dans ces démarches. Ensuite, cinq expériences sont analysées par leurs participants, et les derniers textes portent sur les limites et les difficultés associées aux systèmes ouverts. Le présent ouvrage se veut une invitation à parcourir différentes facettes de ces innovations vivifiantes qui façonnent pas à pas l’avenir de la Terre.