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Exploring the margins through social innovation November 29, 2008
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Our roadshow emphasis on partnership with organizations on the edges of social innovation is echoed in the most recent edition of Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). There, authors James A. Phills Jr., Kriss Deiglmeier, & Dale T. Miller write of the need of exploring this margin.
They write, "Many innovations tackle social problems or meet social needs, but only for social innovations is the distribution of financial and social value tilted toward society as a whole. This leads us to our complete definition of social innovation: A novel solution to a social problem that is more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just than existing solutions and for which the value created accrues primarily to society as a whole rather than private individuals. A social innovation can be a product, production process, or technology (much like innovation in general), but it can also be a principle, an idea, a piece of legislation, a social movement, an intervention, or some combination of them."
Read this excellent article here.
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