Visit EC-Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion László Andor ZSI, Vienna June 20, 2011 Social Innovation. The Concept and its Potential.

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Visit EC-Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion László Andor ZSI, Vienna June 20, 2011 Social Innovation. The Concept and its Potential Josef Hochgerner Zentrum für Soziale Innovation

BASIC FACTS OF THE ORGANISATION Legal status Private Non-Profit research organisation, established 1990 Self-governed association, no external board; no base funding Financial sources: ≈ 4 mio. € in the years 2009, 2010 – Staff: ≈ 60 Clients are ministries, municipalities, EC, OECD, ILO, other public bodies and NGOs Types of projects include research, education and training, coordination of networks, advisory services to public institutions (in Austria, EU and beyond) Key areas of activities:  Work and Equal Opportunities – Head of Unit: Anette Scoppetta  Research Policy and Development – Head of Unit: Elke Dall  Technology and Knowledge – Head of Unit: Ilse Marschalek Executive Board and people participating in the meeting:  Heads of units  Josef Hochgerner, Scientific Director  Klaus Schuch, Business Director  Michael Förschner, implemented Territorial Employment Pacts in his former position as Director of the ESF-Department in the Austrian Ministry of Labour

All innovations are socially relevant Alongside with the economic relevance of innovations in technology social innovations shall receive equally high attention in the public, politics and research. Acting as a social-profit organisation, ZSI conducts research on any kind of socially embedded innovation, making innovation processes apparent and pliable. ZSI is an independent institution, acting globally by deployment of innovative research, education, advisory services and co-ordination of networks, to  support socially appreciated forms of innovations,  develop, research and disseminate social innovations,  analyse, promote and evaluate scientific collaboration,  strengthen an open and solidly united society, and thereby  help to implement the visionary prospect of a better world. MISSION STATEMENT

„Social innovations are new concepts and measures to resolve societal challenges, adopted and utilised by social groups concerned.“ Definition of „Social Innovation“ *) *) Zentrum für Soziale Innovation (Centre for Social Innovation) 2008: „Stimulating Social Development“ (p. 2), available for download at

Main features of this definition Distinction between idea and dissemination: an idea becomes an innovation in the process of social implementation – it changes and improves social practices. The „3-i process“:  Idea  Intervention  Implementation (sometimes formal institutionalisation) The scope of social innovations: the new practice does not need to be affect to the whole of society; yet it may apply to all sectors – the public (state), private (business), and civil society (‚third sector‘) Social innovations compete with traditional or other novel solutions to social issues – and they have a life cycle (a social innovation ceases to be innovative in case of full adoption).

Towards a comprehensive innovation paradigm In general, innovations aim - primarily either on economic or on social objectives, - they may be technology-based or not; - in the social sphere they may require formal regulation or not. Innovations, addressing primarily economic objectives 1), include  products  services  organisational measures  marketing Innovations, addressing primarily social objectives 2), include  roles (of individuals, CSOs, corporate business, and public institutions)  relations (in professional and private environments, networks, collectives)  norms (on different levels, legal requirements)  values (custom, manners, mores, ethic/unethical behaviour) 1) „Oslo Manual“, OECD/EUROSTAT 2005, re. Schumpeter2) amended: ZSI 2011

THE POTENTIAL OF SOCIAL INNOVATIONS Pragmatic cases  Innovative employment policies (e.g. pacts, partner- ships, ESF programmes)  Education and training: inclusion from early age onw.  Social policy and retirement régimes  Diversity management, migration, social inclusion Grand challenges  Society resuming control over economy  Curbing financialisation  Management of abundance  Climate change  Ageing society  Diversity, migration, conflict resolution  Poverty and other MDGs

SHORTCOMINGS AND SUPPORTIVE MEASURES Shortcomings  ‚S.I.‘ is often seen as ‚add-on‘, subordinate to economic logic  Awareness is high, as are expectations (hype = risk)  Instruments and relevant programmes still weak  Indicators and statistics are required (European Innovation Scoreboard, Oslo-Manual...) Measures  Under Europe 2020: Roadmap to ‚Social Innovation 2020‘  Coordination across Structural Funds and DG‘s (SSH in FP!)  European School of Social Innovation (from 2012 onwards)  European Award of Social Innovation (Austrian example:

1.Identification of the social issue... at micro, meso, macro levels of society; which sector: private, public, civil society 2. Idea and solution proposed... methods, procedures, capacity building 3. Acceptance, adoption, adaptation... of the solution by those concerned, resolution of potential conflicts 4.Utilisation, impact and potential dissemination in wider areas and other sectors of society, replications in other than original target groups How to assess social innovations?

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