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Decision support for social innovation enabling sustainable development

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  • Humphreys, Patrick
  • Imas, Miguel

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This paper offers a unique and powerful bottom-up methodology for social innovation promoting and securing Sustainable development goals (SDG’s) in a wide variety of social innovation contexts founded on a bottom-up approach : it identifies four sustainable development enabling factors, (SDEFs) that make social innovation contributions to sustainability in all its forms. We Employ three level (micro, meso, macro) model of social Innovation. In the first four sections of the paper, we show how the SDEF’s constitute social innovation success factors at the micro level, underpinning in ancient history, the enduing success of the Silk Road network of trade and, in recent history we reveal their role underpinning entrepreneurial innovation clusters bottom up. Yje concluding section shows how social innovation achievements implementing the SDEFs at the micro level can inform successful expansion into new contexts via adaptation and exaptation at the meso level and top-down facilitation at the macro level.

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  • Humphreys, Patrick & Imas, Miguel, 2022. "Decision support for social innovation enabling sustainable development," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 115067, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    Keywords

    cluster-building bottom-up; enabling factors; entrepreneurial innovation clusters; Silk Road; Social innovation; sustainable decision support; sustainable development; T&F deal;
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    JEL classification:

    • R14 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Land Use Patterns
    • J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General

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