Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation

Edited by Alex Nicholls and Rafael Ziegler

Offers a new contribution on social innovation in historical perspective
Theorizes social innovation through a new Extended Social Grid Model
Addresses social innovation as it affects especially marginalized groups, and the long-term projects, programmes, and policies that have emerged across Europe
Covers issues such as social housing, drinking water provision, employment, education, and food provision

Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation

Edited by Alex Nicholls and Rafael Ziegler

Description

This book draws upon economic and sociological theory to provide a comprehensive discussion of economic space for social innovation, addressing especially marginalized groups and the long-term projects, programmes, and policies that have emerged and evolved within and across European states. It approaches the explanatory and normative questions raised by this topic via a novel approach: the Extended Social Grid Model (ESGM). Taking inspiration from the fields of economic sociology and ethics, this model shows that social innovation processes must be structural, and require change in power relations, if marginalization is to be effectively dealt with via social innovation.

Part I of the book sets out the ESGM, including an exposition on the model along with background chapters on innovation, power and marginalization, ethics and social innovation, and empirical methods. Part II explores the model with a focus on social innovation trajectories of social housing, drinking water provision, employment, education, and food provision. It also explores the operationalization of the model with a view to agency and empowerment, as well as social innovation policy in Europe and the use of social impact bonds as a tool for financing social innovation. Part III revisits the ESGM and considers the explanatory adequacy and fruitfulness of the model for innovation research and for theorizing social innovation, addressing questions on the role and limitations of participation in social innovation for the marginalized, the role of capital for creating economic space for capabilities, and how we can approach the social impact of social innovation.

This collection of essays presents a diverse range of perspectives on understanding and addressing the key issue of marginalization, and offers key recommendations for policy makers engaging with social innovation across the European Union and beyond.

Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation

Edited by Alex Nicholls and Rafael Ziegler

1: The Extended Social Grid Model, Alex Nicholls and Rafael Ziegler
Part One
2: Social Innovation, Power, and Marginalization, Risto Heiskala
3: Creating Fair (Economic) Space for Social Innovation? A Capabilities Perspective, Rafael Ziegler and Nadia von Jacobi
4: Empirical Approaches to Social Innovation, Georg Mildenberger, Gudrun-Christine Schimpf, Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, and Nadia von Jacobi
Part Two
5: Trajectories of Social Innovation: Housing for All?, Gudrun-Christine Schimpf, Georg Mildenberger, Susanne Giesecke, and Attila Havas
6: Trajectories of Social Innovation: Water For All?, Gudrun-Christine Schimpf and Rafael Ziegler
7: Trajectories of Social Innovation: Tackling Marginalisation with a Complex Approach, György Molnár and Attila Havas
8: Trajectories of Social Innovation: Education, Martijn Jeroen van der Linden
9: Creating Alternative Economic Spaces. The Socially Innovative Practices of Solidarity Purchasing Groups, Lara Maestripieri
10: Social Innovation and Agency, Nadia von Jacobi, Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, Rafael Ziegler, Martijn van der Linden and Cees van Beers
11: Social Innovation Policy in the European Union, Alex Nicholls and Daniel Edmiston
12: Public Policy As Social Innovation: Social Impact Bonds, Alex Nicholls and Daniel Edmiston
Part Three
13: The Extended Social Grid Model Revisited, Rafael Ziegler, Alex Nicholls, Jari Aro, Cees van Beers, Enrica Chiappero-Marinetti, Daniel Edmiston, Attila Havas, Risto Heiskala, Nadia von Jacobi, Klaus Kubczenko, Martijn Jeroen van der Lin den , Lara Maestripieri, Georg Mildenberger, György Molnár, and Gudrun-Christine Schimpf
14: Capital and Capacities: Using Capital to Create Economic Space for Capacities, C.W.M. (Ro) Naastepad
15: The Impact of Social Innovation, Alex Nicholls, Nadia von Jacobi, Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, and Georg Mildenberger
16: Social Innovation Policy, Nadia von Jacobi, Alex Nicholls, Daniel Edmiston, Attila Havas, Klaus Kubeczko, György Molnár, Georg Mildenberger, and Gudrun Schimpf

Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation

Edited by Alex Nicholls and Rafael Ziegler

Author Information

Edited by Alex Nicholls, Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, University of Oxford, and Rafael Ziegler, Head of Research, GETIDOS, Universität Greifswald

Alex Nicholls is Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He is also a Tutorial Fellow and Member of the Governing Body at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, and in 2004 he was the first staff member of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. He has published six books and over a hundred papers, working papers, book chapters, and articles, including seven papers in Financial Times Top 30 journals. He has been the General Editor of the Skoll Working Papers Series and is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship.

Rafael Ziegler coordinates the Social Entrepreneurship Research Group GETIDOS at the University of Greifswald and the Institute for Ecological Economic Research in Berlin. He is the Editor of An Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship: Voices,Preconditions, Contexts (Edward Elgar 2009). His focus is on social innovation in relation to water, justice, and sustainability.

Contributors:

Jari Aro, University of Tampere
Cees van Beers, Delft University of Technology
Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, University of Pavia
Daniel Edmiston, University of Leeds
Susanne Giesecke, Austrian Institute of Technology
Attila Havas, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies
Risto Heiskala, University of Tampere
Nadia von Jacobi, University of Pavia
Klaus Kubeczko, Austrian Institute of Technology
Martijn van der Linden, Delft University of Technology
Lara Maestripieri, The Autonomous University of Barcelona
Georg Mildenberger, Heidelberg University
György Molnár, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies
C. W. M. (Ro) Naastepad, Delft University of Technology
Gudrun-Christine Schimpf, Heidelberg University