Digital Technologies for Social Innovation: An Empirical Recognition on the New Enablers

Even though scholars' attention has been placed on Social Innovation (SI), little evidence has been provided with regards to which tools are actually used to address social needs and foster Social Innovation initiatives. The purpose of the article is twofold. Firstly, the article offers empiric...

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Autores principales: Maiolini,Riccardo, Marra,Alessandro, Baldassarri,Cristiano, Carlei,Vittorio
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Publicado: Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2016
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-272420160004000042017-01-20Digital Technologies for Social Innovation: An Empirical Recognition on the New EnablersMaiolini,RiccardoMarra,AlessandroBaldassarri,CristianoCarlei,Vittorio Social Innovation Start-up, SMEs Digital Tools Network analysis Even though scholars' attention has been placed on Social Innovation (SI), little evidence has been provided with regards to which tools are actually used to address social needs and foster Social Innovation initiatives. The purpose of the article is twofold. Firstly, the article offers empirical recognition to SI by investigating, on a large-scale, social and innovative activities conducted by start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the world between 2001 and 2014. Secondly, the article intends to capture SI core businesses and underlying complementarities between products, markets, and technologies and show in which way digital media and IT are essentially tracing innovation trajectories over a multitude of industries, leading the current industrial patterns of SI, and continually fostering its cross-industry nature.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y NegociosJournal of technology management & innovation v.11 n.4 20162016-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242016000400004en10.4067/S0718-27242016000400004
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topic Social Innovation
Start-up, SMEs
Digital Tools
Network analysis
spellingShingle Social Innovation
Start-up, SMEs
Digital Tools
Network analysis
Maiolini,Riccardo
Marra,Alessandro
Baldassarri,Cristiano
Carlei,Vittorio
Digital Technologies for Social Innovation: An Empirical Recognition on the New Enablers
description Even though scholars' attention has been placed on Social Innovation (SI), little evidence has been provided with regards to which tools are actually used to address social needs and foster Social Innovation initiatives. The purpose of the article is twofold. Firstly, the article offers empirical recognition to SI by investigating, on a large-scale, social and innovative activities conducted by start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the world between 2001 and 2014. Secondly, the article intends to capture SI core businesses and underlying complementarities between products, markets, and technologies and show in which way digital media and IT are essentially tracing innovation trajectories over a multitude of industries, leading the current industrial patterns of SI, and continually fostering its cross-industry nature.
author Maiolini,Riccardo
Marra,Alessandro
Baldassarri,Cristiano
Carlei,Vittorio
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Carlei,Vittorio
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title Digital Technologies for Social Innovation: An Empirical Recognition on the New Enablers
title_short Digital Technologies for Social Innovation: An Empirical Recognition on the New Enablers
title_full Digital Technologies for Social Innovation: An Empirical Recognition on the New Enablers
title_fullStr Digital Technologies for Social Innovation: An Empirical Recognition on the New Enablers
title_full_unstemmed Digital Technologies for Social Innovation: An Empirical Recognition on the New Enablers
title_sort digital technologies for social innovation: an empirical recognition on the new enablers
publisher Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios
publishDate 2016
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