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Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation (CRESSI)
Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,
"The CRESSI project will explore the economic underpinnings of social innovation with a particular focus on how policy and practice can enhance the lives of the most marginalized and disempowered citizens in society. Overall, the bid will take an institutionalist view of the key issues exploring the drivers and structures that lead to marginalization and disempowerment and then setting out how int ...
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Social Innovation and Civic Engagement (ITSSOIN)
Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,
Research has made seminal contributions to describing the size and scope of the Third Sector, including volunteering as an essential component. However, most of the research has focused on economic benefits (revenues, employment etc.). We highly value these efforts, but posit that the core contribution and main impact of the sector on socio-economic development lies in the creation of social innov ...
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The theoretical, empirical and policy foundations for building social innovation in Europe (TEPSIE)
Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,
The European Commission’s Innovation Union strategy clearly places innovation at the centre of the policy agenda for meeting social challenges affecting Europe and its Member States. The field of social innovation is developing rapidly all over the world, with new institutions, methods and activities. However, at present the ability for Europe to coordinate and galvanise its undoubted potential ac ...
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