2021
DOI: 10.1007/s11365-021-00789-9
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Emerging needs of social innovators and social innovation ecosystems

Abstract: Social innovations (SIs) contribute to solving or at least mitigating many of the most pressing grand challenges. Similar to profit-oriented innovations, which are mainly developed by existing organizations and profit-oriented entrepreneurs, SIs are mainly developed and implemented by existing organizations and individual actors - social innovators. While much of the existing literature examines the needs of profit-oriented entrepreneurs and suggests entrepreneurial ecosystems as an adequate approach for satis… Show more

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“…The emerging needs of social innovators and social innovation ecosystems were further investigated by Audretsch, Eichler and Schwarz [12] The authors suggest that social innovation can have a substantial contribution to solving or at least mitigating many of the most pressing grand challenges, such as addressing the climate crisis and a just and green transition. Their study highlights the growing interest in social innovation as a potential way forward in solving the grand challenges and the need to investigate the implications, potentials as well as needs of innovators in social innovation practice.…”
Section: Social Innovation For Regenerative Housingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The emerging needs of social innovators and social innovation ecosystems were further investigated by Audretsch, Eichler and Schwarz [12] The authors suggest that social innovation can have a substantial contribution to solving or at least mitigating many of the most pressing grand challenges, such as addressing the climate crisis and a just and green transition. Their study highlights the growing interest in social innovation as a potential way forward in solving the grand challenges and the need to investigate the implications, potentials as well as needs of innovators in social innovation practice.…”
Section: Social Innovation For Regenerative Housingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Researchers have innovative approaches -like orchestrating entrepreneurial ecosystems in circular economy: the new paradigm of sustainable competitiveness (Castro Oliveira et al, 2022). Researchers have performed detailed analysis on emerging needs of social innovators and social innovation ecosystems (Audretsch, Eichler, & Schwarz, 2022) with conclusions that social innovations are becoming more and more important in different fields of entrepreneurship. Researchers have performed modelling (social) for intra entrepreneurship (Carvalho, 2022) for more detailed analysis of innovation for entrepreneurship.…”
Section: Theoretical Findingsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Entrepreneurship are important tools for addressing the global challenges of the 21st century, building sustainable development, creating new employment sectors, and driving economic recovery ( Audretsch et al, 2021 ). To stimulate more entrepreneurial spirit, many countries have invested significantly in entrepreneurship education in universities ( Cui et al, 2021 ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%