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  2. Social innovation - Wikipedia

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    Social innovation includes the social processes of innovation, such as open source methods and techniques and also the innovations which have a social purpose—like activism, crowdfunding, time-based currency, telehealth, cohousing, coworking, universal basic income, collaborative consumption, social enterprise, participatory budgeting, repair ...

  3. Stanford Social Innovation Review - Wikipedia

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    The publication was founded in 2003 by the Center for Social Innovation (CSI), a Hewlett Foundation grantee [3] at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Now, SSIR receives about 2.5 million total unique visitors annually. Outside of the US, the site receives the most traffic from Canada, India, the UK, the Philippines, and Australia.

  4. Societal innovation - Wikipedia

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    Societal innovation refers to a systemic change in the interplay of the state and civil society. It is a relative of social innovation , but differs from it by considering the state to be an important co-creator in achieving sustainable systemic change.

  5. Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation - Wikipedia

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    The White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation seeks to facilitate social innovation by harnessing human capital and facilitating the flow of financial capital. Based on evidence that communities with higher degrees of civic health exhibit better economic resilience, lower jobless rates, and faster returns to the workforce ...

  6. Social entrepreneurship - Wikipedia

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    Social business venture: These models are set up as businesses that are designed to create change through social means. Social business ventures evolved through a lack of funding. Social entrepreneurs in this situation were forced to become for-profit ventures, because loans and equity financing are hard to get for social businesses. [53]

  7. Sociological theory of diffusion - Wikipedia

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    The amount of time the social group is exposed to the innovation; The nature of the social group; In a study by Surry and Farquhar, researchers explain that the theory of diffusion is used in occupations ranging from marketing to agriculture in order to ensure that new products, ideas, and techniques are well adopted by the social group. [4]

  8. Centre for Social Innovation - Wikipedia

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    The Centre for Social Innovation, was founded in 2004 by Tonya Surman of the Commons Group, Margie Zeidler of Urbanspace Property Group, Mary Rowe of Ideas That Matter, Pat Tobin of Canadian Heritage and Eric Meerkamper of DECODE. Its first location, CSI Spadina, opened in the Robertson Building owned and operated by the Urbanspace Property Group.

  9. Technology and society - Wikipedia

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    Social progress: The belief that there is such a thing as social progress, and that, in the main, it is beneficent. Before the Industrial Revolution, and the subsequent explosion of technology, almost all societies believed in a cyclical theory of social movement and, indeed, of all history and the universe. This was, obviously, based on the ...