1. Social Innovation &
social entrepreneurship
Fredrik Björk
Malmö University

2. Civil society
market government
Social innovation & social entrepreneurship:
Cross-sector relationships/collaborations
Separation and disconnect seen as
fundamental problem

3. Social Innovation def. - Core elements
• Novelty
• Impact
• Social (societal) need
• Improvement
• Inclusive/participative (role of civil society)
• From grass-roots initiatives to systemic change
(institutional arrangements as well as norms
and values)
• new approaches and solutions to social needs
or common problems that are implemented
in and impact society. Social innovations are
inclusive and create new social relationships
or collaborations
• (Agenda for a Swedish Ecosystem for social
innovation, 2014)

4. [slide17]
Invention Innovation

5. Social innovation or social entreprenurship?
• Partly overlapping
concepts
• Different focus?
• Different implications
for different parts of the
support
structure/regulative
framework
• Research - Policy

6. Global concept
• US: Office for social innovation and public
participation
• EU: Policy instruments and programs
• Wide movement of grass-roots initiatives, largely
globally connected
• Increasingly also within business & government
(Public innovation)
Source:
Google
nGram

7. Example: Yalla Trappan
• Work integrated social enterprise
• Immigrant women – unemployed,
long-term sick leave; many low
proficiency Swedish language
• Building on the skills and knowledge
of the women
• First as projects (2004-2010);
2010: 5 employees
2015: 30 employes – earned income
500 000 EURO/year
• Catering/design/cleaning services
• Business partnerships – IKEA,
smaller businesses with design
focus, public authorities, civ society
Social innovation –
social entreprenurship
[spiral]

8. Social innovation and sustainability
• Social innovations - > innovations that aim for
increased sustainability
• Not only ”vulnerable groups”!