Social innovation: buzz word or enduring term?

By E. Saint Pol, S. Ville. 2009

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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Why do Social Innovations in Rural Development Matter and Should They be Considered More Seriously in Rural Development Research? – Proposal for a Stronger Focus on Social Innovations in Rural Development Research (2012, background): “(Pol and Ville 2009, p. 882) So with the sophisticated concept of the macro-quality of life, Pol and Ville simply address the scope of action that a group has.”
What to Make of Social Innovation? Towards a Framework for Policy Development (2014, background): “As many authors have pointed out, there is very little clarity as to what social innovation actually is, and ‘there is no consensus regarding its relevance or specific meaning in the social sciences and humanities’ (Pol and Ville, 2009: 878–85).”
Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (2015, background): “As Pol and Ville (2009) state, the overlap between social and business innovations is considerable and many business innovations have delivered significant improvements in the quality of life; therefore, we question whether the focus should be on the value that an innovation has to society as oppose”
A comprehensive concept of social innovation and its implications for the local context – on the growing importance of social innovation ecosystems and infrastructures (2020, background): “This is largely in line with criticism expressed some years before by authors such as Pol and Ville (2009), stating that the term ‘social innovation’ has ‘entered the discourse of social scientists with particular speed, but there is no consensus regarding the relevance or specific meaning in the…”
Mapping the Various Meanings of Social Innovation: Towards a Differentiated Understanding of an Emerging Concept (2012, background): “Second, categories themselves are neither mutually exclusive nor sufficiently distinct from each other (e.g. the categories “social purpose”, “public good”, “non-market need satisfaction” from Pol and Ville, 2009).”
Social innovation research: An emerging area of innovation studies? (2016, methodology): “Analytical discussion As highlighted in definitional reviews by Moulaert et al. (2005), Pol and Ville (2009) and Dawson and Daniel (2010), as well as a report by The Young Foundation (2012), the application of the SI concept by social scientists has been diverse, leaving some critics to question…”
Social innovation in question: The theoretical and practical implications of a contested concept (2018, methodology): “Based on our literature review, we observed that articles using the term SI often shift seamlessly between deﬁnitions of what SI is and what it should be (Borzaga and Bodini, 2014; Cajaiba-Santana, 2014; Grimm et al., 2013; Mieg and To¨ pfer, 2013; Novy and Leubolt, 2005; Pol and Ville, 2009).”
Social innovation in emerging economies: A National Systems of Innovation based approach (2017, result): “In contrast to the technology-focussed business innovation that characterises much of the NSI literature, Pol and Ville (2009) observed that social innovation is typically not a market construct.”