Social Innovation
Meaning
Importance
Requirements To Function
Challenges That Civil Societies Face
✅ New ideas that work in meeting social needs
(eg: in education and healthcare)
✅ Ideas with civic and/or social purpose
✅ Oftentimes require creativity because they are purposed to address contemporary social maladies and generate new, efficient and sustainable solutions
‼ They meet a social need and their benefits accrue to society as a whole, rather than individuals.
a “quasi-concept” being predominantly a practice-led field in which definitions and meanings have emerged through people doing things in new ways rather than reflecting on them in an academic way.
Examples of Impact
⭐ Addresses social problems (eg: disease reduction, world hunger, poverty, etc).
⭐ Improves society more than individuals
⭐ Not necessarily profit-motivated
⭐ No funding from the public or business sectors
⭐ Increases the importance of a civil society
⭐ Innovation
4 Pillars of Social Innovation
Financing
Society
Entrepreneurship
✅ Volunteerism
✅ Political participation
✅ Civil society engagement
✅ Trust & Press Freedom
Top Countries:
🌐 Iceland
🌐 Denmark
🌐 Ireland
🌐 Norway
🌐 New Zealand
Legislative Restriction
✅ Risk-taking Mindset
✅ Attitude towards Entrepreneurship
✅ Ease of Starting Businesses
✅ Development of Clusters
Top Countries:
🌐 Canada
🌐 The U.S
🌐 Belgium
🌐 Denmark
🌐 The U.K.
✅ Public financing
✅ Ease of Credit
✅ Total Public Expenditure
Top Countries:
🌐 Netherlands
🌐 The U.S
🌐 New Zealand
🌐 Kenya
🌐 The U.K.
Civil Society
🚩 First Sector = Public sector, government, the state
🚩 Second Sector = Private sector, profit-making private enterprise, business, commerce
🚩 Third Sector = Civil Society = (World Bank) a wide array of organizations—community groups, NGOs, labour unions, charity groups, faith-based groups, professional associations, etc
Indicators of civil society strength:
👥 People who donate money.
👥 People who volunteer time or help strangers.
👥 Level of trust in society.
👥 People’s willingness to participate in public debate, elect representatives and join political parties.
👥 Freedom of the press.
Example: (refer Edelman Trust Barometer 2021 report)
⚠ General distrust towards government, businesses, civil society institutions, and the media.
⚠ Causes of distrust - Corruption, rise of populist ideas in NGOs, scandals, fake news, etc.
Top Ten Civic Space Violations:
‼ Detention of Activists
‼ Attacks on Journalists
‼ Censorship
‼ Excessive Force
‼ Protest Disruption
‼ Harassment
‼ Intimidation
‼ Prevention of Protest
‼ Bureaucratic Restriction
‼ Legislative Restriction
: :
✅ National Policy
✅ Research & Impact
✅ Legal Framework
✅ Effectiveness of Policy Implementation
Top Countries:
🌐 The U.K
🌐 The U.S
🌐 France
🌐 Canada
🌐 South Korea
Reasons why companies are implementing social innovation in their businesses:
♻ Social innovation means business becoming a force for good.
♻ Helps the business create new products/services.
♻ Allows businesses the opportunity to explore innovative ways of tackling problems.
♻ Allows businesses insights into new markets.
♻ Business processes are changing.
Tri-Sector Collective Innovation
Human-centered Approach Innovation
Shared Value Creation Innovation
cooperation between the public, corporate, and social sectors
human-centred approaches (eg: design thinking) that puts individuals in society and stakeholders as the main focus
creation of shared values between for-profit (financial value) and non-profit (social impact) entities