- Catégorie
- Repère / analyse - Ressource de l'Avise
- Auteur(s)
- Avise
- Date d'édition
- décembre 2019
Handbook : Social innovation
Recognising an entrepreneurial social innovation project, for better guidance, support and funding
The social innovation momentum is real. That said, it still requires more recognition, support and funding in order to increase its capacity to trigger the emergence of solutions addressing the major challenges facing our society. This handbook, produced by Avise, offers a social innovation awareness-raising summary aimed at support and finance professionals, as well as public sector stakeholders in territorial economic development.
Avise’s work on social innovation takes as its reference the definition used by the Conseil supérieur de l’économie sociale et solidaire (French Social and Solidarity Council) :
“SOCIAL INNOVATION consists in developing new solutions to address new or inadequately met social needs within existing market and social policy conditions, involving the participation and cooperation of the players concerned, particularly users and consumers. These innovations concern the product or service, as well as the mode of organisation, distribution, (etc.). They go through a multi-step process: emergence, experimentation, dissemination, evaluation.”
Contents
- What is it all about?
- Leading social innovation initiatives
- 6 preconceptions about social innovation
- How do we identify social innovation?
- What support needs for a social innovation?
- Support for a social innovation in public policies
- Where should people take a socially innovative projet?
- 5 things to do right now