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''We contend that social innovation is the best construct for understanding—and producing—lasting social change. In order to gain more precision and insight, we redefine social innovation to mean: 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.''

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In this article, we explain how we arrived at our definition of social innovation and why we think it is more useful than terms such as social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. We then describe how the free flow of ideas, values, roles, relationships, and money across sectors is fueling contemporary social innovation. Finally, we suggest ways to continue dismantling the barriers between the sectors, and in doing so unleash new and lasting solutions to the most vexing social problems of our times.

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"The world needs more social innovation—and so all who aspire to solve the world’s most vexing problems—entrepreneurs, leaders, managers, activists, and change agents—regardless of whether they come from the world of business, government, or nonprofits, must shed old patterns of isolation, paternalism, and antagonism and strive to understand, embrace, and leverage cross-sector dynamics to find new ways of creating social value."

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"the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter, was interested in entrepreneurs only as a means to the end of innovation."

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"We contend that social innovation is the best construct for understanding—and producing—lasting social change. In order to gain more precision and insight, we redefine social innovation to mean: 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."

"Much like its parent field of entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship focuses on the personal qualities of people who start new organizations, and it celebrates traits like boldness, accountability, resourcefulness, ambition, persistence, and unreasonableness.⁵ In contrast, the field of social enterprise tends to focus on organizations. "

"The underlying objective of virtually everyone in the fields of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise is to create social value (a term we define later). People have embraced these fields because they are new ways of achieving these larger ends. But they are not the only, and certainly not always the best, ways to achieve these goals. Social entrepreneurs are, of course, important because they see new patterns and possibilities for innovation and are willing to bring these new ways of doing things to fruition even when established organizations are unwilling to try them. "

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I found challenging to understand how concepts of social innovation can inhibit creativity.

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Let’s examine more closely the fields of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. Much like its parent field of entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship focuses on the personal qualities of people who start new organizations, and it celebrates traits like boldness, accountability, resourcefulness, ambition, persistence, and unreasonableness.

This part is quite puzzling to me.

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How could we examine the advantage of the pursuit of positive social change?

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I am finding the limitations between entrepreneurship and social innovation very hard to understand. For me every business is a social action and every new business is a new innovation.

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"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.
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We then describe how the free flow of ideas, values, roles, relationships, and money across sectors is fuelling contemporary social innovation.
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A novel solution to a social problem that is more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just than existing solutions."

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One part that is puzzling is when they mention that the approach to social innovation is to break the boundaries between private and public.

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How could we determine the extent to which a social enterprise becomes an NGO?

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"The terms social entrepreneurship and social enterprise both have their roots in the nonprofit sector, and as a result they tend to limit their domains to nonprofits, implicitly or explicitly excluding public and for-profit organizations.⁷ Although scholars have made valiant efforts to broaden prevailing conceptions of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise, their efforts have had little influence on the composition of affinity groups and funder choices.⁸

The underlying objective of virtually everyone in the fields of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise is to create social value (a term we define later). People have embraced these fields because they are new ways of achieving these larger ends. But they are not the only, and certainly not always the best, ways to achieve these goals. Social entrepreneurs are, of course, important because they see new patterns and possibilities for innovation and are willing to bring these new ways of doing things to fruition even when established organizations are unwilling to try them. And enterprises are important because they deliver innovation. But ultimately, innovation is what creates social value. Innovation can emerge in places and from people outside of the scope of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. In particular, large, established nonprofits, businesses, and even governments are producing social innovations."

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What is the relationship between private and public when it comes to social innovation?

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How can we better incentive business to do more social good? Should we decreases bureaucracy and taxes so that they can be more active?

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Social innovation takes into consideration the aim to improve the welfare and wellbeing of individuals and communities. While innovation by itself is the action or process of innovating.

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" social innovation is a better vehicle for understanding and creating social change in all of its manifestations"
"social innovation: A novel solution to a social problem that is more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just than existing solutions"
"An innovation is truly social only if the balance is tilted toward social value—benefits to the public or to society as a whole—rather than private value—gains for entrepreneurs, investors, and ordinary (not disadvantaged) consumers. We want to differentiate social innovations from ordinary innovations because the world is already amply equipped to produce and disseminate ordinary innovations"

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Social innovation's goals to create an organization that benefits not only its owners but also other needy communities.

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Something I find difficult to understand is the innovation related to "creative destruction" that is producing Economic growth

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"To be considered an innovation, a process or outcome must meet two criteria. The first is novelty: Although innovations need not necessarily be original, they must be new to the user, context, or application. The second criterion is improvement. To be considered an innovation, a process or outcome must be either more effective or more efficient than preexisting alternatives. To this list of improvements we add more sustainable or more just. By sustainable we mean solutions that are environmentally as well as organizationally sustainable—those that can continue to work over a long period of time."

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I think that all innovation will be great for the people, and indeed could be viewed as social. I think that the main difference is the way the founder thinks. In an innovation the founder thinks on gaining upon it and helps people as a consequence, while social innovation the founder aims at helping people and receive money as a a consequence.

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"Innovation is both a process and a product".

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I believe the main difference between social innovation and other types of innovations is that the primary concern of social innovation is the issue that a group of people is living, and it aims to eradicate this problem or, at the very least, diminish it. On the other hand, other types of innovation are solely concerned with inventing something novel, that may or may not help solve an issue.

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It is troubling to compare social innovation to such a broad topic. However, if I were to highlight the main difference, I would say that Social Innovation aims at improving the environment or organization around the risk-taker. Innovation, on the other hand, is the act of finding new ways of approaching complications.

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"The terms social entrepreneurship and social enterprise both have their roots in the nonprofit sector, and as a result they tend to limit their domains to nonprofits, implicitly or explicitly excluding public and for-profit organizations"

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How would a society with only privatized companies put social innovation to practice?

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"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 is what differentiates social innovation from other forms of innovation.

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"The terms social entrepreneurship and social enterprise both have their roots in the nonprofit sector, and as a result they tend to limit their domains to nonprofits, implicitly or explicitly excluding public and for-profit organizations.7 Although scholars have made valiant efforts to broaden prevailing conceptions of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise, their efforts have had little influence on the composition of affinity groups and funder choices."

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"The terms social entrepreneurship and social enterprise both have their roots in the nonprofit sector, and as a result they tend to limit their domains to nonprofits, implicitly or explicitly excluding public and for-profit organizations.7 Although scholars have made valiant efforts to broaden prevailing conceptions of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise, their efforts have had little influence on the composition of affinity groups and funder choices."

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Something challenging to understand was the part they talked about dissolving boundaries and brokering a dialogue between the public, private, and nonprofit sectors

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Indicative of growing cross-sector exchanges, we have witnessed the proliferation of terms that juxtapose the word “social” with private sector concepts, producing such new terms as social entrepreneurship, social enterprise, and of course our favorite, social innovation.

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How can we combine people with ideas of social innovation and private companies that are willing to invest or take action upon those ideals?

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I found challenging to understand the limitations of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise.

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Something that I can't really get a grip on is what would be the part of private companies in social innovation.

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A social innovation must be a concept  in the shape of a product, service, or process that causes change, outperforms existing solutions, and benefits society first and foremost.

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"Social innovation is grounded in the robust academic literature on innovation."

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To be a social innovation, the balance must be titled towards social value rather than private value.
This is why some innovations, that were even revolutionary, are not considered social innovations (such as computers, for example).

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Does the text affirm that some aspects of social innovation go against being creative?

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Social innovation aims to find creative and new ways to help and provide welfare to people in need.

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How can we implement and encourage positive social innovation into entrepreneurship and businesses?

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By sustainable we mean solutions that are environmentally as well as organizationally sustainable—those that can continue to work over a long period of time. For example, some solutions to poverty might entail natural resource extraction, such as oil drilling or fishing, which would be inherently limited by the constraints of the resource. We use “or” intentionally to indicate that a social innovation need be better only in one of these respects.

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Are ESG companies types of social innovators.

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How to create social innovation that benefits all parties involved 

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How to create social innovation that benefits all parties involved 

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I believe that social innovation aims to make people's lives better while some other types of innovation that is not the sole purpose.

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How should we incentive people to create more social innovation projects?

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What forms of innovations are best for the purpose of solving worldwide problems and local problems?

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What makes a social innovation extraordinary, or really good?

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I believe that social innovation has to have an impact in our society at least in one main area, while other innovations don't necessarily have to impact socially.

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I was mainly curious about how well this text was received by the public and other experts, and if there are contestants, what are their arguments.

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Let’s return to the example of lifesaving drugs created by forprofit pharmaceutical companies. Although these innovations are socially valuable and even generate benefits for society beyond the gains for investors, inventors, and consumers, they are innovations that traditional market mechanisms produce and allocate relatively efficiently—except for the subset of the population that cannot afford them. To relieve this social problem, nonprofits such as the Institute for OneWorld Health have emerged to develop drugs for impoverished people, and companies like Merck & Co. have built public-private partnerships to donate drugs like Mectizan to patients in developing nations.

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Let’s return to the example of lifesaving drugs created by forprofit pharmaceutical companies. Although these innovations are socially valuable and even generate benefits for society beyond the gains for investors, inventors, and consumers, they are innovations that traditional market mechanisms produce and allocate relatively efficiently—except for the subset of the population that cannot afford them. To relieve this social problem, nonprofits such as the Institute for OneWorld Health have emerged to develop drugs for impoverished people, and companies like Merck & Co. have built public-private partnerships to donate drugs like Mectizan to patients in developing nations.
This part is quite puzzling to me.

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what has a bigger impact in the social aspects, NGOs or companies for profit?

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The difference between entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs can be ascribed simply to motivation - with entrepreneurs spurred on by money and social entrepreneurs driven by altruism.

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If the differentiation between the two is motivation what is the end effect difference of between social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship?

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How present is the item of innovation is social innovation

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How present is the item of innovation is social innovation

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The first criteria is that it needs to create a social impact, than comes other priorities like making profit

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What is more effective at resolving social issues, social entrepreneurship or normal entrepreneurship?

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The social innovation benefits the whole society at the same time in the same way. While normal innovation only benefits a small group of people.

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"explain how we arrived at our definition of social innovation and why we think it is more useful than terms such as social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. [...] how the free flow of ideas, values, roles, relationships, and money across sectors is fueling contemporary social innovation. [...] suggest ways to continue dismantling the barriers between the sectors, and in doing so unleash new and lasting solutions to the most vexing social problems of our times."

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I think that the concepts and ideas are kinda complex and I should take some time to reflect upon them.

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What are the values of our society? Is it possible to change society's mind in order for us to live a more sustainable life?

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Social innovation needs to focus and connect both the process and the product with the aim to improve society, in a more sustainable or more just way. Aside from that, there needs to have a distribution of financial and social value attributed to the whole society.