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Title: Social innovation: flavoursome fad or future fix?

Article by Martin Stewart-Weeks

26 February 2008, Social Innovation

A review of some of the key challanges facing the growth and development of a robust social innovation sector in Australia.

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It's interesting that you

It's interesting that you should have brought it up. I've been doing some research and what you have mention does work, to a certain extend.

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It is a great review. Many

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Conceptualising innovation as a process

I would like to respond to Martin's third question, on defining and characterising innovation, by reflecting on the way he introduced his posting.

Martin quite rightly refers to a "systematic and persistent search" as part of the innovation process. However, I don't think that this is necessarily evident at the point at which innovation occurs. My (albeit limited) observation is that social innovation is often serendipitous and opportunistic in the first instance.

It is often in the search for, and use of, available innovations (that is, in the identification, positive exploitation and normalisation of innovations), that systematicity and persistence come into play.

Of course, innovation follows many paths. Any schema we use to describe it will always be conceptual and not literal. However, I do think we would do well to consider at greater length the innovation process at a local (in my case Australian) level.

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I agree that some things

I agree that some things probably could be done differently and to greater effect

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