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Social Innovation - Scaling Social Impact: a Danish Case Study

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  • Roger SPEAR

    (The Open University, Milton Keynes (United Kingdom))

  • Carman Ka Man CHAN

    (Roskilde University, Roskilde (Denmark))

Abstract

A recurring theme amongst policymakers and researchers concerned with social innovation is how to increase its social impact, or replicate it elsewhere. This paper draws on the literature to develop a typology of strategies for scaling social impact. It then uses a Danish Case study of an innovative social enterprise to examine the rationale for strategic choices, and issues involved, when the social enterprise ambitiously scales its social impact. This experience also reveals how the strategies evolve over a number of years.

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  • Roger SPEAR & Carman Ka Man CHAN, 2019. "Social Innovation - Scaling Social Impact: a Danish Case Study," CIRIEC Working Papers 1922, CIRIEC - Université de Liège.
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    Keywords

    social innovation; scaling; replication; social impact; social enterprise;
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    JEL classification:

    • O35 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Social Innovation

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