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Social Innovation, the innovative activities/services that are aimed at meeting social goals, has been at the forefront of both academic and policy discussions. Among the institutions that engage in social innovation as a strategy to serve the community, cooperatives and social solidarity organizations are at the forefront. Cooperatives, themselves hailed as a great social institutional innovation of the nineteenth century, facilitate social innovation and deliver social good. Healthcare, alternative energy and environment are the key areas of social innovation by cooperatives in Asia and Pacific region, similar to their counterparts in Europe. The empirical evidences point to the presence of social innovation, as well as continued emphasis on increased social innovation on the part of cooperatives in the Asia Pacific region, both for serving the social purpose and for survival in the competitive setting.
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Dongre, Y., Paranjothi, T. (2020). Cooperatives and Social Innovation. In: Rajasekhar, D., Manjula, R., Paranjothi, T. (eds) Cooperatives and Social Innovation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8880-8_3
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