New publication on the economics of social innovation by Prof. Foray
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Prof. Dominique Foray has published a new article entitled "On the economics of social innovation – a conceptual framework and its policy implications" in the Innovation - Organization & Management Journal.
Abstract
Social innovations addressing social, economic and environmental challenges are increasingly recognized as crucial drivers of social changes and today represent an important target for innovation and related policies on national and international levels, including the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). However, the concept of social innovation remains vague. This paper builds a conceptual framework from an economic perspective: The main criterion for identifying a social innovation concerns the way the benefits generated by an innovation are distributed between the (private or public) innovator and society. We close the paper by an extensive discussion of the conceptual boundaries, the research agenda and the policy implications we can derive based on the framework.
Keywords
Social innovation, welfare economics, market failure, social innovation policy
A. Cuntz, D. Foray & E. Mostovova. On the economics of social innovation – a conceptual framework and its policy implications. Innovation - Organization & Management, 2020.