Challenge Social Innovation Potentials for Business, Social Entrepre
In recent years, social innovation has experienced a steep career. Numerous national governments and large organisations like the OECD, the European Commission and UNESCO have adopted the term. Social innovation basically means that people adopt new socia
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Hans-Werner Franz • Josef Hochgerner Ju¨rgen Howaldt Editors
Challenge Social Innovation Potentials for Business, Social Entrepreneurship, Welfare and Civil Society
Editors Hans-Werner Franz Ju¨rgen Howaldt Social Research Centre TU Dortmund Dortmund Germany
Josef Hochgerner Centre for Social Innovation Vienna Austria
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Foreword I
Challenge Social Innovation Agne`s Hubert1 The expression, the concept and hopefully some concrete social innovations have gained an immense popularity in the last few years, in the EU and beyond. “Social innovation is becoming a global phenomenon that concerns all countries. From Europe to the United States this new process has recruited politicians, entrepreneurs, civil talent and intellectuals. Social innovation is now gaining more attention in developing countries”. These lines were recently published in an article on the “growing importance of social innovation” in China Daily, by Yu Keping, deputy director
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