The current crisis fosters a renewed interest in innovation, a way to experiment a new growth regime. In this context social innovation appears to be the new solution, likely to promote not only growth, but a form of fairer sharing and even to redefine social policies. It is often presented as a...

In most European countries, the way collective action is conducted has been transformed. The role of the state has been redesigned and the participation of a diversity of stakeholders, from the public and the private (for-profit and non-profit) sectors, has been encouraged. These changes are at...

Academics incubators are generally dedicated to technological innovation and allow articulation between public research and business. How to foster the development of social innovation that respond to social needs through collective efforts and partnership, combining territorial project, social...