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Challenge Social Innovation: An Introduction

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The introduction to the book provides information about the coordinates and intentions of the Challenge Social Innovation Conference that took place in September 2011 in Vienna. This conference was the principal background and framework of the book presented here. The introduction highlights the focal points of the authors invited to contribute to this book.

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  • Social Practice
  • Social Enterprise
  • Social Entrepreneurship
  • Service Innovation
  • Social Innovation

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The tracks of international research on innovation demonstrate that the technology-oriented paradigm – shaped by the industrial society – does not cover the broad range of innovations indispensable in the transition from an industrial to a knowledge and services-based society: Such fundamental societal changes require the inclusion of social innovations in a paradigm shift of the innovation system.

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  1. Social Research Centre, Dortmund University of Technology, Evinger Platz 17, Dortmund, 44339, Germany

    Hans-Werner Franz & Jürgen Howaldt

  2. Centre for Social Innovation, Linke Wienzeile 246, Vienna, 1150, Austria

    Josef Hochgerner

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  1. Zentrale Wissenschaftliche Einrichtung, Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund, TU Dortmund, Evinger Platz 17, Dortmund, 44339, Germany

    Hans-Werner Franz

  2. Centre for Social Innovation, Linke Wienzeile 246, Vienna, 1150, Austria

    Josef Hochgerner

  3. Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund, Evinger Platz 17, Dortmund, 44339, Germany

    Jürgen Howaldt

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Franz, HW., Hochgerner, J., Howaldt, J. (2012). Challenge Social Innovation: An Introduction. In: Franz, HW., Hochgerner, J., Howaldt, J. (eds) Challenge Social Innovation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32879-4_1

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