Mulgan Social Innovation

How Societies Find the Power to Change
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4473-5381-2
Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 306 Seiten, ebook ePub (individual)

The 21st century has brought a cornucopia of new knowledge and technologies. But there has been little progress in our ability to solve social problems using social innovation – the deliberate invention of new solutions to meet social needs - across the globe.

Geoff Mulgan is a pioneer in the global field of social innovation. Building on his experience advising international governments, businesses and foundations, he explains how it provides answers to today’s global social, economic and sustainability issues. He argues for matching R&D in technology and science with a socially focused R&D and harnessing creative imagination on a larger scale than ever before.

Weaving together history, ideas, policy and practice, he shows how social innovation is now coming of age, offering a comprehensive view of what can be done to solve the global social challenges we face.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mulgan, Geoff

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: the great imbalances

I MAKING SENSE OF SOCIAL INNOVATION

What is social innovation and how is it done?

The roots of social innovation and the fragile springs of social generativity

II. CHALLENGES, ROADBLOCKS AND SYSTEMS

The political context for social innovation now: thesis, antithesis and synthesis

Structural change and new social contracts: how innovation in welfare can address changing needs

Social production systems: what is the best unit for analysis and action?

Place-based systems change: how can governments, funders and civil society achieve more together?

III. SOURCES, IDEAS AND WAYS OF SEEING

The theoretical foundations of social innovation: sources, ideas and future directions

Social science and intelligence design

Observation, interpretation and activism: sociology's role in social change

Understanding how cultures change

A theory of belonging: how do we feel at home?

The interpretation of social change

IV GOOD AND BAD SOCIAL INNOVATION

Know Your Impact (and in praise of better borrowing)

The evolution of measures that matter: how do we know if social innovation is working?

Good and bad innovation: what theory and practice do we need to distinguish them?

V SOCIAL INNOVATION AND THE FUTURE

Social innovation in the 2020s

Thinking about the future

VI FRESH THINKING

Über Autor(innen)

Mulgan, Geoff
Sir Geoff Mulgan is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). Previously he was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation, Director of the government's Strategy Unit and Head of Policy in the Prime Minister's office, Chief Executive of The Young Foundation, Director of the think-tank Demos and Chief Adviser to Gordon Brown MP and a reporter on BBC TV and radio. He is a senior visiting scholar at Harvard University and advises governments around the world. He is the author of many books including Good and Bad Power (Penguin) and Big Mind (Princeton University Press).