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The Loop, the Lens, and the Lesson: Using Resilience Theory to Examine Public Policy and Social Innovation

In: Social Innovation

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  • Michele-Lee Moore
  • Frances R. Westley
  • Ola Tjornbo
  • Carin Holroyd

Abstract

The role of social innovation and social entrepreneurship in addressing complex problems has increasingly gained traction in policy-making circles with policy practitioners’ interest piqued about how governments may best support such innovations (e.g. PRI, 2010). Various governments are attempting to support social innovation through a variety of means. For instance, the Office of Civil Society in the UK and the Australian Centre for Social Innovation are recent attempts by these national governments formally to institutionalize the fostering of social entrepreneurs and social enterprises. Other national governments have chosen simply to promote the ‘production’ side of innovation, by funding research and development, specifically for the technology sectors (Nelson, 1993). But while there is a growing body of grey literature that mirrors policy practitioners’ own interest in this field (e.g. Leadbeater, 2007), scholarship within the social innovation and social entrepreneurship community has largely neglected the role of public policy in supporting or hindering social innovation (for an exception, see Chapman et al., 2007).

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  • Michele-Lee Moore & Frances R. Westley & Ola Tjornbo & Carin Holroyd, 2012. "The Loop, the Lens, and the Lesson: Using Resilience Theory to Examine Public Policy and Social Innovation," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Alex Nicholls & Alex Murdock (ed.), Social Innovation, chapter 3, pages 89-113, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-36709-8_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230367098_4
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    1. Cristina Chaminade & Filippo Randelli, 2020. "The Role of Territorially Embedded Innovation Ecosystems Accelerating Sustainability Transformations: A Case Study of the Transformation to Organic Wine Production in Tuscany (Italy)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(11), pages 1-13, June.
    2. Simo Sarkki & Cristina Dalla Torre & Jasmiini Fransala & Ivana Živojinović & Alice Ludvig & Elena Górriz-Mifsud & Mariana Melnykovych & Patricia R. Sfeir & Labidi Arbia & Mohammed Bengoumi & Houda Cho, 2021. "Reconstructive Social Innovation Cycles in Women-Led Initiatives in Rural Areas," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(3), pages 1-22, January.
    3. Tjörnbo, Ola & McGowan, Katharine, 2022. "A complex-systems perspective on the role of universities in social innovation," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 174(C).
    4. Hanna Szemző & Jorge Mosquera & Levente Polyák & Lukács Hayes, 2022. "Flexibility and Adaptation: Creating a Strategy for Resilience," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(5), pages 1-19, February.
    5. Vargo, Stephen L. & Akaka, Melissa Archpru & Wieland, Heiko, 2020. "Rethinking the process of diffusion in innovation: A service-ecosystems and institutional perspective," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 116(C), pages 526-534.

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