This report explores the spatial dimension of productivity in the co-operatives of Italy, a country where they make up a relatively large share of total national employment. Co-operatives play a countercyclical role in job creation during crises. In a post-pandemic world, they could make a major...

Social innovations have proven to be valuable in identifying, designing and implementing new solutions to social and environmental problems. The recent COVID-19 outbreak has put a spotlight on the potential of social innovation as a resilience mechanism, including for local development. This...

Questo rapporto analizza la dimensione territoriale della produttività nelle cooperative italiane, segmento che esprime una quota relativamente ampia dell’occupazione nazionale. Le cooperative assolvono a un’importante funzione anticiclica nella creazione di occupazione durante le crisi....

This essay explores potential research opportunities at the intersection of institutions, innovation, and impact. We engage with, and probe into, what we have dubbed the ‘cultural future’ by examining several examples described in the 2017 “Future Issue” of the Fortune magazine. Our...

Purpose: The article considers social entrepreneurship as a tool for ensuring social security - a promising option for solving various problems of modern society (unemployment, including vulnerable groups of the population, social adaptation, personal self-realization, selfsufficiency, etc.)....

French Abstract: Cet article dresse un paysage des innovations sociales numériques en France. Après les avoir définies, leur contexte est présenté et une typologie est proposée, à la lumière de près d’une centaine d’études de cas

This paper reviews social finance. Venture philanthropy, microfinance, crowdfunding and social impact bonds are financial and social innovations that reshape capital markets, the production of public goods, entrepreneurship and the fundamental principles of financial analysis. In this context,...

Social enterprises have attracted increased attention from both researchers and practitioners around the world. In the social enterprise context, scaling social impact is considered the main currency or key performance metric. Two overarching social impact scaling strategies are organizational...

The innovation and venture capital (VC) worlds work on the belief that there are plug-and-play ideas which can meaningfully address persistent and intractable development challenges. Further, they believe that these innovations can arise from the most unexpected places through entrepreneurial...

The Austrian school of economics has played a key contribution toward an improved understanding of the characteristics of economic innovation. Over recent decades the language and concepts of innovation theory has broadened to non-market settings, among other things giving rise to a voluminous...