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Social Innovation: A New Concept for a Sustainable Future?

In: Social Innovation

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  • René Schmidpeter

    (Centre for Humane Market Economy)

Abstract

Like all innovative intellectual concepts, the endeavor of developing the concept of Social Innovation starts with a broad debate on what the underlying problem looks like and what the contribution of introducing this new term to the ongoing intellectual discussions about our society should be. One goal of the publication is to capture and highlight the current state of thinking about how to overcome the most pressing challenges of our time. How can we foster innovations which add value to our societies by tackling our very real problems in the field of education, demography, energy, finance, ecological scarcity, as well as social and economic prosperity? It becomes more and more clear that we need a “quantum leap” – a big step forward in innovative thinking in order to achieve a sustainable future – for ourselves but especially for our kids. Such a complex matter of course cannot be easily achieved, sometimes answers seem more confusing and with every new argument new questions arise.

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  • René Schmidpeter, 2013. "Social Innovation: A New Concept for a Sustainable Future?," CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, in: Thomas Osburg & René Schmidpeter (ed.), Social Innovation, edition 127, pages 1-9, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-642-36540-9_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36540-9_1
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    Cited by:

    1. Marina Novikova, 2022. "Social Innovation Impacts and Their Assessment: An Exploratory Study of a Social Innovation Initiative from a Portuguese Rural Region," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-24, March.
    2. Emilio Domínguez-Escrig & Francisco Fermín Mallén-Broch & Rafael Lapiedra-Alcamí & Ricardo Chiva-Gómez, 2019. "The Influence of Leaders’ Stewardship Behavior on Innovation Success: The Mediating Effect of Radical Innovation," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 159(3), pages 849-862, October.
    3. Tangfei Xiong & Jianjun Zhang & Huiyan Huang, 2023. "Entrepreneurship Education for Training the Talent in China: Exploring the Influencing Factors and Their Effects," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(15), pages 1-23, July.
    4. Marina Candi & Monia Melia & Maria Colurcio, 2019. "Two Birds with One Stone: The Quest for Addressing Both Business Goals and Social Needs with Innovation," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 160(4), pages 1019-1033, December.

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