The worldwide increase in societal challenges is putting pressure on humanitarian
organizations to develop sophisticated approaches to leverage social innovations in the …

This introduction provides an overview of the special issue and identifies the need for
continued work in the area of social innovation, which seeks to create social value and …

Objective: The aim of the research is to develop a new original concept of social innovation
lab based on the concept of living labs seen from the perspective of design-led approach to …

Interest in managing social innovation from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors has
been growing at a dramatic rate. There has also been a recent spate of writing on social …

The purpose of this paper is to better understand the process of social innovation, as well as
exploring what lessons can be transferred from general business innovation theory and …

Contemporary design professionals have been struggling with the challenges posed by
addressing the core concepts of sustainable development in earnest for over thirty years …

While the concept of innovation has become more and more important for societies to cope
with the great societal challenges, technological and economic innovation encounters …

Objective: To analyze how social innovation actions and practices presented in case
studies, generate social impact. Methodology: The meta-synthesis was adopted, which, by …

Purpose–The research fields of service innovation and social innovation have, until now,
been largely disconnected. At the most basic level, a great many social innovations are …

Social innovation (SI) offers a sustainable solution to prevalent social issues/problems and
is typically developed and deployed by a varied set of people from the society adopting a top …