Social innovation: an emerging reality in development processes
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Technological innovation in econo‑ mic entities has been widely studied. However, social innovation is a emer‑ ging phenomenon of concern. Market paradigms (price, cost, quality ...) are not immediately transferable in order to investigate this type of innovation that happens in society. Social innovation develops in a particular way, it has specific origins, it has its own facilitating and catalysing factors, and finally, it comes up against specific barriers. In the same way that advanced society is concerned about RD&i as an element for competence at economic levels and reinforces the innovation system with all the elements involved, the same level of concern does not exist to generate a system to strengthen the social inno‑ vation needed to mitigate the problems suffered by the most needy groups: the so–called “base of the pyramid”. Could we conceive of the creation of “centres for social innovation”? Which would be the office for transferring social research at university level? The same as with patents, which indicators for social innovation resulting from research –references with university prestige– would be the ones to use to measure advances in this field?
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