Purpose While current scholarship on innovation typically examines its antecedents, the
purpose of this paper is to provide a more complete account by advocating for social impacts …

While the adoption of Social Innovation (SI) in the governance and policy domain has fueled
a rapidly expanding scholarly literature, this field has become characterized by conceptual …

This paper offers a rationale for expanding current efforts to support industrial innovation to
encompass the important and unique contributions that the social sciences can make in this …

Social innovation is often framed as an alternative and in opposition to dominant
entrepreneurial understandings of technological innovation. In these cases, the term social …

Innovation research is motivated by the understanding that new technologies contribute to
address societal challenges and foster welfare. Extant research in the economics of …

Social innovation is once more an increasingly popular notion circulating as an apparent
means to solve the Grand Challenges of the 21st Century. But this common-sense idea of …

This special issue intends to explore and fuel current debate on the role technological
innovation, as well as social innovation, is playing or could play in developing countries to …

Human innovativeness is a very valuable capacity and that has probably been recognized
since the dawn of humanity. When we engage in innovation, we introduce change …

In recent years social innovation has been increasingly promoted in public policy debates as
a vehicle for developing innovative and efficient solutions addressing societal needs. In the …

The new information age and the phenomena of digitalization and automation make
investments in research and development (R&D) indispensable for economic and social …