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Le CIRADD est un centre de recherche en innovation sociale spécialisé en développement durable. Il offre des services de recherche et d’analyse ainsi que du soutien, de l’accompagnement et de la formation aux organisations qui souhaitent trouver des solutions innovantes et durables. Affilié au Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles, le centre fait partie du réseau Synchronex, qui regroupe 59 centres collégiaux d’innovation au Québec, et de Tech-Accès Canada, un réseau pancanadien de 60 centres d’accès à la technologie.

Commonly, social innovation is defined as new ideas proposals to the needs of humans. However, there is a lack of a well-definition comprehensive leading the fragmentation of field research. On the other hand, the contribution of universities for social innovation development is still less investigated. In this sense, this study intends to explore interrelations between universities and social innovation in relation to different lines of investigation employed. For this, a content analysis was applied to results obtained by Cunha et al. [1]. Five categories of analysis were defined. Findings revealed that there are a number of studies that applied qualitative research to investigate practical examples of social innovation inside of universities and few empirical studies. A link among keywords social innovation, higher education, and social entrepreneurship was found. Furthermore, the analysis showed that there is not a leader country but a distribution across several countries, where Spain and United Kingdom stand out. Thus, this result suggests that it would be helpful to develop an instrument to measure academics’ engagement with social innovation research and practice. In addition, this research contributes to current knowledge regarding the role of universities in social innovation model, providing new theoretical and practical insights of investigation.

Commonly, social innovation is defined as new ideas proposals to the needs of humans. However, there is a lack of a well-definition comprehensive leading the fragmentation of field research. On the other hand, the contribution of universities for social innovation development is still less investigated. In this sense, this study intends to explore interrelations between universities and social innovation in relation to different lines of investigation employed. For this, a content analysis was applied to results obtained by Cunha et al. [1]. Five categories of analysis were defined. Findings revealed that there are a number of studies that applied qualitative research to investigate practical examples of social innovation inside of universities and few empirical studies. A link among keywords social innovation, higher education, and social entrepreneurship was found. Furthermore, the analysis showed that there is not a leader country but a distribution across several countries, where Spain and United Kingdom stand out. Thus, this result suggests that it would be helpful to develop an instrument to measure academics’ engagement with social innovation research and practice. In addition, this research contributes to current knowledge regarding the role of universities in social innovation model, providing new theoretical and practical insights of investigation.

This open access book summarizes research being pursued within the SISCODE (Society in Innovation and Science through CO-DEsign) project, funded by the EU under the H2020 programme, the goal of which is to set up an analytical, reflective and learning framework to explore the transformations in initiatives and policies emerging from the interaction between citizens and stakeholders. The book provides a critical analysis of the co-design processes activated in 10 co-creation labs addressing societal challenges across Europe. Each lab as a case study of real-life experimentation is described through its journey, starting from the purpose on the ground of the experimentation and the challenge addressed. Specific attention is then drawn on the role of policies and policy maker engagement. Finally, the experimentation is enquired in terms of its output, transformations triggered within the organization and the overall ecosystem, and its outcomes, opening the reasoning towards the lessons learnt and reflections that the entire co-creation journey brought.

This open access book summarizes research being pursued within the SISCODE (Society in Innovation and Science through CO-DEsign) project, funded by the EU under the H2020 programme, the goal of which is to set up an analytical, reflective and learning framework to explore the transformations in initiatives and policies emerging from the interaction between citizens and stakeholders. The book provides a critical analysis of the co-design processes activated in 10 co-creation labs addressing societal challenges across Europe. Each lab as a case study of real-life experimentation is described through its journey, starting from the purpose on the ground of the experimentation and the challenge addressed. Specific attention is then drawn on the role of policies and policy maker engagement. Finally, the experimentation is enquired in terms of its output, transformations triggered within the organization and the overall ecosystem, and its outcomes, opening the reasoning towards the lessons learnt and reflections that the entire co-creation journey brought.

Notre équipe est heureuse de vous présenter notre théorie du changement. Elle est le résultat d'un long travail d'équipe sur les impacts à long terme que nous souhaitons créer. Cette théorie du changement guide toutes les décisions stratégiques d'Esplanade Québec. Notre visée à long terme est de créer, via l'entrepreneuriat d'impact, les changements systémiques dont nous avons besoin pour construire une société plus juste, durable et inclusive au Québec.

Pour dresser le bilan de ses pratiques en début de pandémie, Moisson Montréal a utilisé un nouvel outil d’appréciation des effets de l’action intersectorielle locale, développé par des membres de la Chaire de recherche du Canada Approches communautaires et inégalités de santé. Cet outil interactif offert gratuitement en ligne aide des organismes tels que Moisson Montréal, qui œuvrent en réseau avec de multiples partenaires intersectoriels, à comprendre, modéliser et piloter les actions (tenue d’une activité, production d’un document, représentation, etc.) à entreprendre pour répondre à un besoin social, et à en analyser les retombées.

Pour dresser le bilan de ses pratiques en début de pandémie, Moisson Montréal a utilisé un nouvel outil d’appréciation des effets de l’action intersectorielle locale, développé par des membres de la Chaire de recherche du Canada Approches communautaires et inégalités de santé. Cet outil interactif offert gratuitement en ligne aide des organismes tels que Moisson Montréal, qui œuvrent en réseau avec de multiples partenaires intersectoriels, à comprendre, modéliser et piloter les actions (tenue d’une activité, production d’un document, représentation, etc.) à entreprendre pour répondre à un besoin social, et à en analyser les retombées.

The circumstances in which everyday life takes place shapes people’s capacity to lead healthy lives. We posit that the traditional linear way of thinking about causes and consequences limits our ability to fully capture the complexity of the interaction between people and their contextual circumstances in the production of health. We view critical realism as particularly helpful in understanding how problems are generated by this interaction as well as understanding the fit and responsiveness of our interventions to situational contexts. Such a perspective requires systematically attempting to “unpack” how different settings are shaped by health promotion interventions and how this is experienced by people. Accessing and mobilising such knowledge also requires particular sets of methods that deviate from what is still often seen as the gold standard for designing and evaluating interventions. Critical realism therefore shifts the primary focus of health promotion research from questions about “if” interventions work to questions about “how”, “why” and “under what circumstances” they can work. By helping to capture complexity in health promotion intervention research, a critical realist perspective leads to the production of rigorous knowledge without having to succumb to concerns about standardisation.

Public innovation has received increasing attention in recent years. Experiments with new governance structures, such as New Public Management and New Public Governance, have challenged the traditional top-down, internally driven forms of innovation in the public sector and have entailed a search for new forms of open, collaborative and interactive innovation, implying a reframing of public innovation activities. However, introducing these new frames of innovation causes uncertainties in the public sector, necessitating better understanding of how public innovation can be changed to address societal needs. This paper uses materials from case studies of 21 public living labs across Europe to analyse the lessons that can be learned from public sector participation in living labs in terms of their contribution to reframing public innovation. The “frame” construct is used to analyse and provide an understanding of how participation in living labs helps public actors to reframe innovation and address public and societal needs. Three living lab framings for changing public innovation are identified (processual learning, restrained space and democratic engagement), and the degree of intensity of these framings with respect to involving stakeholders and addressing societal challenges is discussed. The paper contributes to knowledge of public sector innovation by extending previous accounts of how public innovation can be improved.

Public innovation has received increasing attention in recent years. Experiments with new governance structures, such as New Public Management and New Public Governance, have challenged the traditional top-down, internally driven forms of innovation in the public sector and have entailed a search for new forms of open, collaborative and interactive innovation, implying a reframing of public innovation activities. However, introducing these new frames of innovation causes uncertainties in the public sector, necessitating better understanding of how public innovation can be changed to address societal needs. This paper uses materials from case studies of 21 public living labs across Europe to analyse the lessons that can be learned from public sector participation in living labs in terms of their contribution to reframing public innovation. The “frame” construct is used to analyse and provide an understanding of how participation in living labs helps public actors to reframe innovation and address public and societal needs. Three living lab framings for changing public innovation are identified (processual learning, restrained space and democratic engagement), and the degree of intensity of these framings with respect to involving stakeholders and addressing societal challenges is discussed. The paper contributes to knowledge of public sector innovation by extending previous accounts of how public innovation can be improved.

Despite the recent surge of research on leader humility, it remains unclear how and when teams benefit from it. Drawing on social cognitive theory, we propose a moderated mediation model that we test using multisource, time-lagged data collected from 71 teams in a university-affiliated hospital. We find that humble leaders indirectly enhance team innovation via greater team reflexivity. Additionally, we consider the average level of proactive personality of team members as a boundary condition of the positive effect of leader humility. Our results show that leader humility prompts team reflexivity only when team mean level of proactive personality is high, which in turn increases team innovation. Bridging social cognitive theory with research on humble leadership in teams, our study offers important implications for both theory and practice.

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