THE MANY FACETS OF SOCIAL INNOVATION
THE MANY FACETS OF SOCIAL INNOVATION

Summary/Abstract: Interrogations around the concept of social innovation continue to form an important stream of scientific research and bring into focus different aspects that seem to put this concept into a different perspective. Staying aware of the risk of considering social innovation a solution for every problem, but also avoiding to consider it a “buzzword”, the present article intends to present yet another facet of social innovation, namely community based social innovation, or “grounded social innovation” (Daniel, Jenner, 2022). This category of social innovation is considered to be both community based and community oriented, a characteristic that differentiates it from another categories of social innovation. This approach allows also a brief analysis of the context and factors which influence social innovation either positively or negatively. The research methods used are mainly qualitative, as numerous sources of specialty literature have been evaluated and analyzed, in order to establish several forms of social innovation and discuss and establish their main features.

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