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The Syrian refugee crisis has been termed “the greatest humanitarian crisis of the last century” and countries around the world have stepped up to provide safe haven to millions of Syrians fleeing violence. Canada's unique private sponsorship policy coupled with government sponsorship of refugees saw more than 40,000 welcomed to Canada in a matter of months prompting the need for new processes and solutions. Grassroots organizations emerged, with new partnerships, processes and approaches enabled with new applications of simple technologies and revealed opportunities to leverage and amplify government resources. While fragmented and sometimes primitive these efforts signaled new opportunities to create an innovative “sharing economy” approach. This paper will review the relations between these new initiatives, actors and networks and the opportunities to drive systems change through a social innovation lens.

The Syrian refugee crisis has been termed “the greatest humanitarian crisis of the last century” and countries around the world have stepped up to provide safe haven to millions of Syrians fleeing violence. Canada's unique private sponsorship policy coupled with government sponsorship of refugees saw more than 40,000 welcomed to Canada in a matter of months prompting the need for new processes and solutions. Grassroots organizations emerged, with new partnerships, processes and approaches enabled with new applications of simple technologies and revealed opportunities to leverage and amplify government resources. While fragmented and sometimes primitive these efforts signaled new opportunities to create an innovative “sharing economy” approach. This paper will review the relations between these new initiatives, actors and networks and the opportunities to drive systems change through a social innovation lens.

The Syrian refugee crisis has been termed “the greatest humanitarian crisis of the last century” and countries around the world have stepped up to provide safe haven to millions of Syrians fleeing violence. Canada's unique private sponsorship policy coupled with government sponsorship of refugees saw more than 40,000 welcomed to Canada in a matter of months prompting the need for new processes and solutions. Grassroots organizations emerged, with new partnerships, processes and approaches enabled with new applications of simple technologies and revealed opportunities to leverage and amplify government resources. While fragmented and sometimes primitive these efforts signaled new opportunities to create an innovative “sharing economy” approach. This paper will review the relations between these new initiatives, actors and networks and the opportunities to drive systems change through a social innovation lens.

The Syrian refugee crisis has been termed “the greatest humanitarian crisis of the last century” and countries around the world have stepped up to provide safe haven to millions of Syrians fleeing violence. Canada's unique private sponsorship policy coupled with government sponsorship of refugees saw more than 40,000 welcomed to Canada in a matter of months prompting the need for new processes and solutions. Grassroots organizations emerged, with new partnerships, processes and approaches enabled with new applications of simple technologies and revealed opportunities to leverage and amplify government resources. While fragmented and sometimes primitive these efforts signaled new opportunities to create an innovative “sharing economy” approach. This paper will review the relations between these new initiatives, actors and networks and the opportunities to drive systems change through a social innovation lens.

The rapid pace of technological developments played a key role in the previous industrial revolutions. However, the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) and its embedded technology diffusion progress is expected to grow exponentially in terms of technical change and socioeconomic impact. Therefore, coping with such transformation require a holistic approach that encompasses innovative and sustainable system solutions and not just technological ones. In this article, we propose a framework that can facilitate the interaction between technological and social innovation to continuously come up with proactive, and hence timely, sustainable strategies. These strategies can leverage economic rewards, enrich society at large, and protect the environment. The new forthcoming opportunities that will be generated through the next industrial wave are gigantic at all levels. However, the readiness for such revolutionary conversion require coupling the forces of technological innovation and social innovation under the sustainability umbrella.

The rapid pace of technological developments played a key role in the previous industrial revolutions. However, the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) and its embedded technology diffusion progress is expected to grow exponentially in terms of technical change and socioeconomic impact. Therefore, coping with such transformation require a holistic approach that encompasses innovative and sustainable system solutions and not just technological ones. In this article, we propose a framework that can facilitate the interaction between technological and social innovation to continuously come up with proactive, and hence timely, sustainable strategies. These strategies can leverage economic rewards, enrich society at large, and protect the environment. The new forthcoming opportunities that will be generated through the next industrial wave are gigantic at all levels. However, the readiness for such revolutionary conversion require coupling the forces of technological innovation and social innovation under the sustainability umbrella.

This study seeks to understand the nature and process of social innovation driven by mature social economy enterprises, and the innovative capability that supports it. The research examines enterprise capabilities by means of the institutional approach to social innovation and the Resource-Based View theory (RBV). Based on grounded theory, this research focuses on a single case, the creation of the Desjardins Environment Fund (DEF). Launched 25 years ago,1 DEF is the first mutual fund in North America to include extra-financial criteria in its evaluation of business environmental management practices (fund securities) for the information of individual investors. The findings of this empirical research show how a major cooperative bank can generate social innovation and how this entails organizational innovations. The findings also reveal how these innovations benefit from the strategic and process resources that the Desjardins Movement managed to develop while taking into account both its core business (as a bank) and its purpose (as a cooperative). This study shows that the innovative potential of the mature social economy enterprise should not be underestimated.

This study seeks to understand the nature and process of social innovation driven by mature social economy enterprises, and the innovative capability that supports it. The research examines enterprise capabilities by means of the institutional approach to social innovation and the Resource-Based View theory (RBV). Based on grounded theory, this research focuses on a single case, the creation of the Desjardins Environment Fund (DEF). Launched 25 years ago,1 DEF is the first mutual fund in North America to include extra-financial criteria in its evaluation of business environmental management practices (fund securities) for the information of individual investors. The findings of this empirical research show how a major cooperative bank can generate social innovation and how this entails organizational innovations. The findings also reveal how these innovations benefit from the strategic and process resources that the Desjardins Movement managed to develop while taking into account both its core business (as a bank) and its purpose (as a cooperative). This study shows that the innovative potential of the mature social economy enterprise should not be underestimated.

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

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 creation, development, adoption and integration of new and renewed concepts and practices that put people and the planet first. Tiré de Internet. [http://socialinnovation.ca]. Centre for Social Innovation. "What the heck is social innovation?" (20140813)

The creation, development, adoption and integration of new and renewed concepts and practices that put people and the planet first. Tiré de Internet. [http://socialinnovation.ca]. Centre for Social Innovation. "What the heck is social innovation?" (20140813)

Overview This research space can be described as an opportunity to explore trust, balance, respect, and understanding in intercultural relationships between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in Canada, with an overall aim of fostering new, responsible, reciprocal and respectful relationships in place of old conflicts .Preliminary research suggests that social innovations

Rapport de recherche des RCRPP. Au cours des dernières années, on a assisté à une importante croissance de l’innovation sociale au Canada et dans le reste du monde. Durant cette période, ce concept a beaucoup évolué, et son application s’est diversifiée. Ainsi, l’innovation sociale se manifeste désormais partout dans le monde en tant que politique publique légitime des secteurs économique et social.

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.

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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