New Players on Crowded Playing Fields: The Institutional Embeddedness of Social Innovation in Germany

Ruddat, Claudia; Schönauer, Anna-Lena

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“…How social innovations and perceived and responded to by existing institutions and stakeholders will vary between different welfare regimes. For example, a more Liberal or mixed economy welfare regime (such as the United Kingdom or the Netherlands) provides relatively more opportunity and support for social innovations to deliver welfare services than a Corporatist system (e.g., Germany), and Social Democratic regimes in Scandinavia are even less receptive (Ruddat & Schönauer, ).…”

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“…While disruption and subversion of existing practice may produce longer‐term benefits (although that remains to be proven), the “creative destruction” of innovation poses immediate challenges (Nicholls & Murdock ; Schumpeter, ). The simultaneously threatening and potentially beneficial character of social innovation and enterprise is one source of controversy (Ruddat & Schönauer, ). Another is whether the claims made about the transformational impact of social innovation are borne out by evidence (Chalmers, , p. 18).…”

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Social innovation, social enterprise, and local public services: Undertaking transformation?

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This article discusses some of the challenges encountered in embedding effective and sustainable social enterprise and social innovation within established political institutional systems to deliver local welfare services. It draws upon evidence analyzing social innovation and social enterprise in Scotland to contribute to the debate over whether social innovations and social enterprises are able to meet expectations in addressing the significant challenges faced by welfare systems. The article clarifies the meaning of both these contested concepts and explains how social innovation and social enterprise relate to similar ideas in social and public policy. The evidence suggests that actually operating social enterprises and social innovations do not embrace the image of them promoted by enthusiasts as either "entrepreneurial" or "innovative". Furthermore, they bring distinctive challenges in delivering local welfare services, including potential tensions or rivalry with existing public agencies. The article suggests that social enterprises and social innovations are not themselves instigators nor catalysts for systemic change, but that their impact is constrained by structural conditions and institutional factors beyond their control.

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“…This is especially relevant when the contextual conditions change abruptly and there is necessity of recurring to existing long-term partnerships to concentrate relevant resources for dealing with external problems (Pel et al, 2019). However, this mechanism must be used with particular attention due to the risk of reproducing existing institutions and act as gatekeepers towards new but relevant stakeholders (Ruddat & Scho ¨nauer, 2014).…”

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Institutionalizing Experimental Places for Inclusive Social Innovation: From Utopias to Heterotopias

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This essay embraces a notion of critical scholarship concerned with proposing normative and actionable alternatives that can create more inclusive societies and focuses on the role of institutionalizing experimental places for inclusive social innovation as a bottom-up strategic response to welfare state reforms. By mobilizing the notions of utopias and heterotopias in Foucault, the paper sheds light on the opportunity to move from policy utopias to democratic heterotopias, discussing the politics embedded in this cognitive shift and the democratic nature of social innovation changing social and governance relations by interacting with politico-administrative systems. Some obstacles to institutionalizing social innovation are highlighted, as well as some key governance mechanisms that can be activated either by public and/or social purpose organizations to try to overcome those obstacles. Finally, we discuss the importance of linking inclusive social innovation with democratic, rather than market logics.

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“…The innovation capacity and the regional capacity of learning are related to the density and the quality of the regional productive environment of the network, which includes the cooperation between different actors, like companies, public sector, and others (Landabaso et al 1999;Ruddat & Schönaue, 2014). In this context, innovation is regarded as an interactive process and as shaped by a variety of processes.…”

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A Longitudinal Analysis of Territorial Social Innovations in a Touristic Route

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Langoski

2017

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This research's objective is a longitudinal analysis of the ways in which the actors of a touristic route established their strategies, developed their actions and interacted in order to generate a territorial social innovation, through actor-network theory. Specifically, it is an attempt to identify the main changes occurred in the romantic route (RR) over the past three years, as well as to analyse the benefits derived from the social innovation to the municipalities that are part of the romantic route. As a research strategy, the case study of the romantic route was used, through semi-structured interviews made in two different moments: 2011 and 2013. This research concludes that the romantic route, whose primary objective was not social, has developed, over the course of its history, initiatives and different social actions throughout the territory, bringing a better quality of life to the population through the social and economic development of the municipalities.Keywords: Social Innovation, Territorial Innovation, Actor-Network Theory, Romantic Route ResumoEsta pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar longitudinalmente de que forma os diferentes atores integrantes de uma rota turística estabeleceram suas estratégias, desenvolveram suas ações e interagiram para gerar uma inovação social territorial, por meio da teoriaator-rede. Especificamente, busca-se identificar as principais mudanças ocorridas na Rota Romântica (RR) ao longo dos últimos três anos, bem como analisar os benefícios resultantes da inovação social para os municípios integrantes da Rota Romântica. Como estratégia de pesquisa utilizou-se o estudo de caso único na Rota Romântica, por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas, coletadas em dois momentos diversos, 2011 e 2013. O resultado da pesquisa foi que a Rota Romântica, cujo objetivo primordial e inicial não era social, desenvolveu, ao longo da sua história, iniciativas e ações sociais distintas ao longo do seu território, proporcionando melhor qualidade de vida para a população, através do desenvolvimento econômico e social dos municípios.

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New Players on Crowded Playing Fields: The Institutional Embeddedness of Social Innovation in Germany

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

Social innovation, social enterprise, and local public services: Undertaking transformation?

Social innovation, social enterprise, and local public services: Undertaking transformation?

Institutionalizing Experimental Places for Inclusive Social Innovation: From Utopias to Heterotopias

A Longitudinal Analysis of Territorial Social Innovations in a Touristic Route

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