Interest in social innovations (SIs) from both the academic and the policy side is growing.
Nonetheless, we still know little about which sustainable development goals (SDGs) SIs …

Findings from a large and growing body of transdisciplinary research offer useful insights for
a deeper understanding of the relationships between social innovation and governance. In …

Social innovations (SIs) contribute to solving or at least mitigating many of the most pressing
grand challenges. Similar to profit-oriented innovations, which are mainly developed by …

In Europe, as in the rest of the Western world, scholarly interest in social movements
developed with the wave of protest that, in the late sixties, shook confidence in the 'end of …

The sustainability transitions scholarship is increasingly applying power and empowerment
frameworks to investigate the role of grassroots innovations in the politics of societal change; …

In the current economic crisis, social movements are simultaneously facing two types of
challenges: first, they are confronting institutions which are less able (or willing) to mediate …

We present an integrative approach to social innovation research to build a unified
understanding of this emerging field. Based on a systematic literature review of articles …

Crisis as a result of global environmental change, such as extreme floods, droughts,
bushfires, and planetary health issues such as pandemic, is becoming more common …

As a prominent and performative discourse, The Smart City has the potential to shape urban
futures. Yet, its mostly top-down implementation and dominantly technocratic definition of …

This paper examines the evolvement of the 'movement of the squares' following the end of
the more visible cycles of mobilization of the squares´ occupations. We argue that a crucial …