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.
1: Alex Nicholls and Rafael Ziegler: The Extended Social Grid Model Part One 2: Risto Heiskala: Social Innovation, Power, and Marginalization 3: Rafael Ziegler and Nadia von Jacobi: Creating Fair (Economic) Space for Social Innovation? A Capabilities Perspective 4: Georg Mildenberger, Gudrun-Christine Schimpf, Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, and Nadia von Jacobi: Empirical Approaches to Social Innovation Part Two 5: Gudrun-Christine Schimpf, Georg Mildenberger, Susanne Giesecke, and Attila Havas: Trajectories of Social Innovation: Housing for All? 6: Gudrun-Christine Schimpf and Rafael Ziegler: Trajectories of Social Innovation: Water For All? 7: György Molnár and Attila Havas: Trajectories of Social Innovation: Tackling Marginalisation with a Complex Approach 8: Martijn Jeroen van der Linden: Trajectories of Social Innovation: Education 9: Lara Maestripieri: Creating Alternative Economic Spaces. The Socially Innovative Practices of Solidarity Purchasing Groups 10: Nadia von Jacobi, Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, Rafael Ziegler, Martijn van der Linden and Cees van Beers: Social Innovation and Agency 11: Alex Nicholls and Daniel Edmiston: Social Innovation Policy in the European Union 12: Alex Nicholls and Daniel Edmiston: Public Policy As Social Innovation: Social Impact Bonds Part Three 13: 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: The Extended Social Grid Model Revisited 14: C.W.M. (Ro) Naastepad: Capital and Capacities: Using Capital to Create Economic Space for Capacities 15: Alex Nicholls, Nadia von Jacobi, Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, and Georg Mildenberger: The Impact of Social Innovation 16: Nadia von Jacobi, Alex Nicholls, Daniel Edmiston, Attila Havas, Klaus Kubeczko, György Molnár, Georg Mildenberger, and Gudrun Schimpf: Social Innovation Policy
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.
Reviews for Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation
This worthwhile book introduces a new path with practical relevance to understanding the economic space of social innovation...The book's coverage (in particular, its historical case studies) is impressive, and remarkably, the authors acknowledge that the ESGM is just one way of using insight from innovation studies in social innovation * Judith Terstriep, Institute for Work and Technology Westphalian University Gelsenkirchen, Prometheus *
