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