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This article explores the strategies and dynamics of scaling up social innovations. Social innovation is a complex process that profoundly changes the basic routines, resource and authority flows, or beliefs of the social system in which it occurs. Various applications of marketing and diffusion theory are helpful to some extent in understanding the trajectories or successful strategies associated with social innovation. It seems unwise, however, to rely solely on a market model to understand the dynamics of scaling social innovation, in view of the complex nature of the supply-demand relation with respect to the social innovation market. Instead, the authors propose a distinctive model of system transformation associated with a small but important group of social innovations and dependent on discontinuous and cross-scale change. This paper focuses on the challenge of scaling up social innovations in general and in particular the dynamics of going to scale

Social innovations (SIs) frequently bring previously unrelated actors, ideas, and practices together in new configurations with the goal of addressing social needs. However, the dizzying variety of definitions of SI and their dynamic, exploratory character raise dilemmas for evaluators tasked with their evaluations. This article is based on a systematic review of research on evaluation, specifically an analysis of 28 published peer-reviewed empirical studies, within SI contexts. Given that design considerations are becoming increasingly important to evaluators as the complexity of social interventions grows, our objectives were to identify influences on design of evaluations of SI and clarify, which SI features should be taken into account when designing evaluations. We ultimately developed a conceptual framework to aid evaluators in recognizing some differences between SI and conventional social interventions, and correspondingly, implications for evaluation design. This framework is discussed in terms of its implications for ongoing research and practice.

This working paper presents the results of a review of existing scientific literature as well as official reports and policy documents on existing impact measurement methodologies and results. Furthermore, it includes the results from literature and from the focus groups with Third Sector stakeholders in the form of a set of consensus impact indicators, both at the micro (personal) and macro (societal) levels. It is part of the project “The Contribution of the Third Sector to Europe’s Socio-economic Development”. Amongst other goals the project aims at assessing the Impact of the Third Sector beyond mere economic data

Abstract All over the world there are millions of social entrepreneurs that come up with potential social innovations. Some never get implemented in practice. Others are implemented, but then the passion fades or the solution does not reveal itself as promising for creating social impact. In some cases, the lack of sustainability or management capacity prevents a successful scaling up process. Despite all these potential obstacles, there are social innovations that go from promising ideas to becoming mainstream solutions, leading to new markets, industries, or social movements, such as Microfinance or Wikipedia. An in-depth look at main obstacles facing social innovators and the leadership skills required to overcome them is a meaningful contribution to the field of social innovation. The goal of this chapter is to propose such a contribution through an in-depth exploration of the life cycle of social innovation. The term “life cycle” implies a sequence of stages in the evolution of new ventures (Parker 2007).

L’équipe du projet de Réseau québécois en innovation sociale (RQIS) présente dans cet ouvrage un état de la situation en matière d’innovation sociale au Québec. Sans tenter de recenser chacune des initiatives sociales innovatrices présentes sur le territoire québécois, l’équipe s’est plutôt attardée à cerner ce phénomène, qualifié souvent de « complexe », en réalisant des entrevues auprès d’experts en innovation sociale et en réalisant une analyse transversale d’initiatives québécoises reconnues comme étant des innovations sociales. Au final, ce document permet de mieux comprendre ce qu’est l’innovation sociale, les différentes phases de ses processus ainsi que le rôle des acteurs qui y prennent part. Il propose une définition opérationnelle de l’innovation sociale ainsi que le Schéma global d’un processus d’innovation sociale, lequel peut servir de guide aux acteurs investis dans ses processus. Le présent ouvrage s’adresse à toutes les personnes qui participent ou s’intéressent de près ou de loin aux processus d’innovation sociale ainsi qu’à ceux et celles qui souhaitent en connaître davantage sur le sujet. Des constats et quelques pistes d’action sont enfin présentés dans le but de permettre aux divers acteurs de coordonner leurs efforts et de permettre l’émergence et le développement d’initiatives créatrices visant l’amélioration du bien-être des Québécoises et des Québécois. Mots clés : innovation sociale, processus d’innovation sociale, entrepreneur social, développement social, innovateur, système d’innovation. Réseau québécois en innovation sociale ACTeuRs eT pRoCessus D’InnoVATIon soCIALe Au QuébeC ix

Les organisations ont d’abord besoin de mesurer la portée de leur initiative, puis progressivement de prouver son efficacité aux bailleurs de fonds et aux investisseurs.

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The innovation journey is a process model distinguishing between the initiation, developmental and implementation/termination period of innovations; it looks at drivers and barriers, like innovation managers, investors, setbacks, adaptation, infrastructure. We operationalize this model to apply it to the process of social innovation. Eighty-two cases are re-analysed in a secondary analysis using qualitative comparative analysis to assess how social innovations develop and to investigate if they resemble the ‘innovation journey’ of innovations in technology/business.

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We are a not-for-profit, UKRI-accredited organisation with a unique understanding the changing role of communities in the 21st century. We build knowledge around the issues people care about, supporting collective, locally-led action and enterprise to improve lives and address shared challenges, and driving social change for stronger communities.

This paper aims to analyze how features raised in the case studies in the field of social innovation, from the meta-synthesis methodology proposed by Hoon (2013), indicate factors that promote social innovation scalability

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How can brilliant but isolated experiments aimed at a solving the most pressing and complex social and ecological problems become more widely adopted and lead to transformative impact? Leaders of social change and innovation often struggle to expand their impact on social systems, and funders of such change are increasingly concerned with the scale and positive impact of their investments. In 1998, the Montreal-based J.W. McConnell Family Foundation pursued a deliberate granting strategy known as Applied Dissemination to reframe approaches to replicating successful projects. A few years later, the Foundation began convening its grantees receiving funding from the Applied Dissemination (AD) program to accelerate the impacts of their initiatives, develop a stronger understanding of the complex systems in which they worked, and to collectively begin to address some of Canada’s most intractable social problems. The AD learning group focused on peer-based learning and application, in an environment that created trust and respect among participants. The AD learning group was successful not only in improving individual and organizational efforts to accelerate and scale impact, but also in catalyzing a field of practice in Canada that focused on generating new social innovations, and scaling up and deepening the impact of those innovative initiatives. More than a decade later, the experience contains valuable lessons about effective scaling strategies, and about how to design applied learning approaches to support social innovators.

<p>Social innovations bring about novel ways to address societal challenges and ultimately aim at creating social impact by improving the condition of individuals, communities, and the planet. We define “social impact” as improvements in wellbeing, quality of life, life satisfaction, or living standards or, in an inverse view, reductions in social needs or hindrances that deprive one of the capability to live a good life. Assessing the extent of the social impact created by a given social innovation is essential to assess the relevance and the efficiency of the social innovation, to monitor it, and, ultimately, replicate and diffuse it. Yet assessing social impact is a complex process. This chapter maps the current knowledge on social impact assessment to allow researchers and innovators alike to make sense of the multiplicity of approaches currently available and to overcome the challenges associated with their implementations, particularly when it comes to promote inclusion of the most disenfranchised. The authors review the main approaches to assessing social impact and discuss the challenges associated with social impact assessment. Building upon this analysis, they propose a model that relates stages and needs in the innovation cycle with relevant social impact assessment approaches. They finally discuss future research directions that could help social impact assessment better drive social innovation and impact. </p>