Download - Enabling social innovation – opportunities for sustainable local and regional development
Enabling social innovation – opportunities for sustainable local and regional development
Joanne McNeillUniversity of Western Sydney
study aims
• to position as economic
• to open up discussion
• to assist with positioning
a ‘language politics’
typology elements - summary
• social relations (process) – ‘ways of organising’
• social needs (outcomes)– diverse economic agents & processes– social markets dimensions
• through case examples – contribution to sustainable local & regional development
J.K. Gibson-Graham
Available at:http://www.communityeconomies.org/Home/Key-Ideas
diverse economies ‘iceberg’
diverse economic agents & processes
• Labour: secondments, student participation, work for welfare, in-kind, volunteer, self-provisioning
• Transactions: equal partner collaborations, social procurement, shared back-room-services arrangements, local currencies, barter, household sharing, gleaning
• Property: publicly owned hard assets, publicly owned ‘soft’ assets (eg. data sets), nonprofit organisation assets, community land trusts, open-source intellectual property, creative commons
• Enterprise: public-sector owned enterprises, social businesses, employee owned enterprises, community owned enterprises, cooperatives, social enterprises, nonprofits
• Finance: social investment products, community bonds, microfinance, interest free loans, grants, crowd-funding
social market dimensions
• new or improved product or service
• new or improved method of production or service delivery
• new market or new entrant to an existing market
• new source of supply or supply chain
• new model (more efficient or effective organisation of a sector)
Based on Schumpeter
two ‘user’ groups
public sector officers - local, state, federal• variety of roles, but all with some ‘place’ focus• prior involvement in social innovation activity
residents and enterprises connected to a specific ‘place’• community groups, community service organisations,
social enterprises & residents, some being both
user input to typology design and feedback on
social innovation concepts