1st Edition

The Economics of Social Innovation

Edited By Judith Terstriep, Dieter Rehfeld Copyright 2022
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

This book addresses ‘the economics of social innovation’, a widely neglected topic in regional development. The chapters in this edited volume cover distinct but complementary and related aspects concerning the existing gap between the hitherto unexploited potential of social innovation in relation to socio-economic challenges that regions across Europe and globally face. Research on social... Read more

Introduction: Bridging local embeddedness and global dynamics – the economics of social innovation

Judith Terstriep and Dieter Rehfeld

1. Context dependency of social innovation: in search of new sustainability models

Alessandro Deserti and Francesca Rizzo

2. Favourable social innovation ecosystem(s)? – An explorative approach

Judith Terstriep, Dieter Rehfeld and Maria Kleverbeck

3. Social Innovation Regime: an integrated approach to measure social innovation

Alfonso Unceta, Álvaro Luna, Javier Castro Spila and René Wintjes

4. Emergence and diffusion of social innovation through practice fields

Maria Rabadjieva and Anna Butzin

5. Understanding the determinants of social innovation in Europe: an econometric approach

Mehtap Akgüç

6. Translocal empowerment in transformative social innovation networks

Flor Avelino, Adina Dumitru, Carla Cipolla, Iris Kunze and Julia Wittmayer

7. Applying the concept of social innovation to population- based healthcare

Sebastian Merkel

8. Monitoring inclusive urban development alongside a human rights approach on participation opportunities

Jennifer Eckhardt, Christoph Kaletka and Bastian Pelka

9. Transition through design: enabling innovation via empowered ecosystems

Tamami Komatsu Cipriani, Christoph Kaletka and Bastian Pelka

10. Green social innovation – towards a typology

Doris Schartinger, Dieter Rehfeld, Matthias Weber and Wolfram Rhomberg

Biography

Judith Terstriep (Economist) is Head of Research Department, Innovation, Space & Culture at the Institute for Work and Technology, Westphalian University Gelsenkirchen and Lecturer for Social Innovation and Regional Innovation Systems at the Ruhr-University Bochum. Her work centres on (social) innovation and innovation systems and its societal value added.

Dieter Rehfeld (Political Scientist) is Head of the Study Group, Industrial Policy at the Institute for Work and Technology, Westphalian University Gelsenkirchen and Associate Professor at the Ruhr-University Bochum. Regional structural change, re-industrialization and modes of industrial policy are among his core research activities.