The study of social innovation offers the opportunity to grapple with the central real-world challenges of our time. Indeed, rather than conceptualizing social innovation as a subset of technological-economic innovation, it may be the case that the reverse now makes a more compelling case. As this volume underlines, social innovation offers potential solutions to climate change, the crisis of the welfare state, health pandemics and failures, social dislocation and inequality, and educational fa

First Author: Nicholls, Alex; Murdock, Alex
Attributed to:  Third Sector Research Centre funded by ESRC

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Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Social Innovation: Blurring Boundaries to Reconfigure Markets (2011)

Page Reference: 139-161

ISBN: 9780230280175