Social innovation involves new strategies and ideas that strengthen civil society and address societal needs across various sectors. The innovation process consists of five stages: preparation, generation, incubation, evaluation, and implementation, aimed at turning innovative ideas into practical solutions. Examples of social innovation include fair trade, distance learning, and new public health models, highlighting its impact beyond the non-profit sector.

1. A Step By Step Innovation Process

2. What Social Innovation Is ?
Social innovation refers to new strategies, concepts, ideas, and
organizations that extend and strengthen civil society or meet societal needs
of all kinds—from working conditions and education to community
development and health.

3. Terms Of Social Innovation
Social
Of or relating to society.
Innovation
A change in customs; something new and contrary to established customs,
manners, or rites.
Social Capital
The value created by interpersonal relationships with expected returns in
the marketplace.

4. KEY POINTS
Social innovation can refer to social processes of innovation, such as open
source methods and techniques.
Social innovation can also refer to innovations that have a social purpose,
like microcredit or distance learning, and can be related to social
entrepreneurship.
Social innovation can take place within the government sector, the for-profit
sector, the nonprofit sector (also known as the third sector), or in the spaces
between them.

5. The Process Of Social Innovation
Social innovation is often an effort of mental creativity that involves fluency
and flexibility across a wide range of disciplines.
The act of social innovation in a sector encompasses diverse disciplines
within society.

6. The social innovation theory of "connected difference" emphasizes three
key dimensions of social innovation:
First, it usually produces new combinations or hybrids of existing elements,
rather than wholly new.
Second, it cuts across organizational or disciplinary boundaries.
Last, it creates compelling new relationships between previously separate
individuals and groups. Social innovation is currently gaining visibility within
academia.

7. A Five Stage In Innovation Process
1. Preparation
This involves paying real, detailed attention to what’s going on in the area of
your business where you want to innovate – what’s its purpose/who gets
something from it/what, fundamentally, are the outcomes it’s supposed to
yield?
2. Generation
Once you’ve explored and understood the context in which you are wanting
to innovate, you can start to come up with ideas that deal with the things
you’ve discovered are really significant in that context.

8. 3. Incubation
Once you’ve developed some options, sleep on them, or at least go away,
do something else and then come back to them. This will allow your brain to
process them and make better sense of them.
4. Evaluation
Once you’ve slept on the options you’ve created, you can evaluate them
from a more objective perspective. A good approach is to use the themes
you identified during preparation. Do these options fulfil the purpose, give
everyone what they need and yield the fundamental outcomes?

9. 5. Implementation
Some might say that this is the most challenging stage of the process –
turning, with the cooperation of colleagues, clients, suppliers and so on, a
good idea into something that works to everyone’s satisfaction!

10. A Five Stage In Innovation Process

11. Summary
The results of social innovation – new ideas that meet unmet needs – are all
around us.
They include fair trade and restorative justice, hospices and kindergartens,
distance learning and traffic calming.
Social innovation is not unique to the non-profit sector.
It can be driven by politics and government(for example, new models of
public health), markets (for example, open source software or organic
food),movements (for example, fair trade), and academia(for example,
pedagogical models of childcare),as well as by social enterprises
(microcredit and magazines for the homeless.

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