This enriching Handbook covers many aspects of the scientific and socio-political debates on social innovation today. The contributors provide an overview of theoretical perspectives, methodologies and instructive experiences from all continents, as well as implications for collective action and policy. They argue strongly for social innovation as a key to human development. The Handbook defines social innovation as innovation in social relations within both micro and macro spheres, with the purpose of satisfying unmet or new human needs across different layers of society. It connects social innovation to empowerment dynamics, thus giving a political character to social movements and bottom-up governance initiatives. Together these should lay the foundations for a fairer, more democratic society for all. This interdisciplinary work, written by scholars collaborating to develop a joint methodological perspective toward social innovation agency and processes, will be invaluable for students and researchers in social science and humanities. It will also appeal to policy makers, policy analysts, lobbyists and activists seeking to give inspiration and leadership from a social innovation perspective.
List of figures x
List of tables xi
List of contributors xii
Acknowledgements xxii
General introduction: the return of social 1 (8)
innovation as a scientific concept and a social
practice
Frank Moulaert
Diana MacCallum
Abid Mehmood
Abdelillah Hamdouch
Part I Social Innovation: From Concept To
Theory And Practice
Introduction: social innovation at the 9 (4)
crossroads between science, economy and
society
Juan-Luis Klein
1 Social innovation: intuition, precept, 13 (12)
concept, theory and practice
Frank Moulaert
Diana MacCallum
Jean Hillier
2 Social innovation in governance and public 25 (15)
management systems: toward a new paradigm?
Benoit L騅esque
3 Social innovation, social economy and 40 (13)
social enterprise: what can the European
debate tell us?
Jacques Defourny
Marthe Nyssens
4 Social innovation in an unsustainable world 53 (14)
Abid Mehmood
Constanza Parra
5 Social innovation through arts and 67 (13)
creativity
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
Thomas Pilati
6 Microcredit as a social innovation 80 (13)
Arvind Ashta
Karl Dayson
Rajat Gera
Samanthala Hettihewa
N.V. Krishna
Christopher Wright
7 Social innovation for People-Centred 93 (14)
Development
Lars Hulgard
P.K. Shajahan
Part II Social Innovation Theory: Its Role In
Knowledge Building
Introduction: social innovation - an idea 107 (3)
longing for theory
Stan Oosterlynck
8 Social innovation research: a new stage in 110 (21)
innovation analysis?
Bob Jessop
Frank Moulaert
Lars Hulg蚌d
Abdelillah Hamdouch
9 Social innovation: a territorial process 131 (11)
Barbara Van Dyck
Pieter Van den Broeck
10 Social sustainability: a competing concept 142 (13)
to social innovation?
Constanza Parra
11 Theorizing multi-level governance in 155 (14)
social innovation dynamics
Marc Pradel Miguel
Marisol Garcia Cabeza
Santiago Eizgguirre Anglada
12 Towards a Deleuzean-inspired methodology 169 (14)
for social innovation research and practice
Jean Hillier
Part III Instructive Case Studies In Social
Innovation Analysis
Introduction: social innovation experience 183 (3)
and action as a lead for research
Stuart Cameron
13 Just another roll of the dice: a socially 186 (11)
creative initiative to assure Roma housing in
North Western Italy
Tommaso Vitale
Andrea Membretti
14 From 'book container' to community centre 197 (10)
John Andersen
Kristian Delica
Martin Severin Frandsen
15 Venturing off the beaten path: social 207 (12)
innovation and settlement upgrading in Voi,
Kenya
Emmanuel Midheme
16 Knowledge building and organizational 219 (11)
behavior: the Mondrag6n case from a social
innovation perspective
Igor Calzada
17 Going beyond physical urban planning 230 (12)
interventions: fostering social innovation
through urban renewal in Brugse Poort, Ghent
Stijn Oosterlynck
Pascal Debruyne
18 Social innovation through the arts in 242 (17)
rural areas: the case of Montemor-o-Novo
Isabel Andr?
Alexandre Abreu
Andr? Carmo
Part IV Social Innovation Analysis:
Methodologies
Introduction: 'reality' as a guide for SI 259 (5)
research methods?
Abdelillah Hamdouch
19 A transversal reading of social innovation 264 (10)
in European cities
Serena Vicari Haddock
Chiara Tornaghi
20 Qualitative approaches for the study of 274 (11)
socially innovative initiatives
Haris Konstantatos
Dimitra Siatitsa
Dina Vafou
21 Research strategies for assets and 285 (14)
strengths based community development
Nola Kunnen
Diana Mac Callum
Susan Young
22 Technological incubators of solidarity 299 (9)
economy initiatives: a methodology for
promoting social innovation in Brazil
Ana Dubeux
23 Partnership-based research: coproduction 308 (12)
of knowledge and contribution to social
innovation
Jean-Marc Fontan
Denis Harrisson
Juan-Luis Klein
24 Social innovation in public elder care: 320 (12)
the role of action research
John Andersen
Annette Bilfeldt
25 Reflections on the form and content of 332 (11)
Participatory Action Research and
implications for social innovation research
Len Arthur
Part V Collective Action, Institutional
Leverage And Public Policy
Introduction: the institutional space for 343 (3)
social innovation
Diana MacCallum
26 Learning from case studies of social 346 (15)
innovation in the field of social services:
creatively balancing top-down universalism
with bottom-up democracy
Flavia Martinelli
27 The social and solidarity-based economy as 361 (10)
a new field of public action: a policy and
method for promoting social innovation
Laurent Fraisse
28 The Quebec Model: a social innovation 371 (13)
system founded on cooperation and consensus
building
Juan-Luis Klein
Jean-Marc Fontan
Denis Harrisson
Benoit L騅esque
29 The linkages between popular education and 384 (13)
solidarity economy in Brazil: an historical
perspective
Ana Cristina Fernandes
Andreas Novy
Paul Singer
30 Local associations in Chile: social 397 (15)
innovation in a mature neoliberal society
Vicente Espinoza
31 Gender and social innovation: the role of 412 (15)
EU policies
Isabel Andr?
Part VI Frontiers In Social Innovation Research
Introduction: the pillars of social 427 (3)
innovation research and practice
Serena Vicari Haddock
32 Innovative forms of knowledge production: 430 (12)
transdisciplinarity and knowledge alliances
Andreas Novy
Sarah Habersack
Barbara Schaller
33 Holistic research methodology and 442 (11)
pragmatic collective action
Frank Moulaert
Abid Mehmood
34 Social innovation Tor community economies: 453 (13)
how action research creates 'other worlds'
J.K Gibson-Graham
Gerda Roelvink
35 Framing social innovation research: a 466 (15)
sociology of knowledge perspective
Frank Moulaert
Barbara Van Dyck
Index 481
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