Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Foreword: The Study of Social Innovation - Theory, Practice and Progress -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Dimensions of Social Innovation -- Part I: Researching Social Innovation -- 1 Social Innovations as Drivers of Social Change - Exploring Tarde's Contribution to Social Innovation Theory Building -- 2 At the Root of Change: The History of Social Innovation -- 3 A Relational Database to Understand Social Innovation and Its Impact on Social Transformation -- Part II: Blurring Boundaries and Reconfiguring Relations -- 4 Social Innovation: Redesigning the Welfare Diamond -- 5 Social Innovation for Social Cohesion -- 6 Collaborative Services in Informal Settlements: Social Innovation in a Pacified Favela in Rio de Janeiro -- Part III: Producing Social Innovation through New Forms of Collaboration -- 7 Enhancing Public Innovation through Collaboration, Leadership and New Public Governance -- 8 Seoul City's Social Innovation Strategy: New Models of Communication to Strengthen Citizen Engagement -- 9 Can Collective Intelligence Produce Social Innovation? -- 10 The Usefulness of Networks: A Study of Social Innovation in India -- Conclusion: The Task of the Social Innovation Movement -- Index.

This book is open access under a CC BY license. Interest in social innovation is growing, yet theory lags behind practice. This collection helps bridge that gap, compiling work by leading social innovation researchers to build understanding of the nature and effects of social innovation.

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