Social Impact of Innovation or Impact of Social Innovation?

Sebastian Gatica M.

May, 2015.

Montreal, Canadá.

Social Innovation, Challenges and Perspectives for

Higher Education

II. Social Impact of Innovation or Impact of Social Innovation?

III. Challenges and Perspectives for Social Innovation

IV. Questions

Content

I. A Social Innovation Lab

CoLab voyage

Inspired by Theory U, O. Scharmer MIT

Co-sensingwith society

Living together with communities

Co-creating with changemakers

I. A Social Innovation Lab

… and after three years…

ResearchFields of Action

I. A Social Innovation Lab

People

Organizations

Systems

Form

ation

Community

Engagement

Example

Example

Example

Territorial Social Innovation

Colllaborative Networks

New Public Private Arrangement

Transdisciplinary work & Holistic

Approach

I. A Social Innovation Lab

Which are the complex social problems to be solved?

Which are the gaps or obstacles towards prosperity?

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TOWARDS A LAB FOR SYSTEM CHANGE…

I. A Social Innovation Lab

Social Lab Global Gathering (Toronto, 2014)

II. Social Impact of Innovation or Impact of Social Innovation?

4 Elements which could shed some light on it:

i. Purpose driven

ii. Social Innovation as a phenomenon

iii. Community led

iv. How equipped is the ecosystem?

i. PURPOSE DRIVEN

II. Social Impact of Innovation or Impact of Social Innovation?

Source: Sistema B, 2014

How to transit on this?

i. PURPOSE DRIVEN

II. Social Impact of Innovation or Impact of Social Innovation?

Sistema B, 2014

Sistema B´s Theory of Change: Moving from a state of emerging and pioneer businesses and their ecosystems to an institutionalized state with new values and rules.

Institutionalized ScenarioEmergent Scenario

Ommunities of practices

ii. Social Innovation

AS NEW PHENOMENON OR PARADIGM

II. Social Impact of Innovation or Impact of Social Innovation?

But how can ‘systems change’ be achieved?

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENCE & SYSTEMIC CHANGE

Government (Institutions/Rules) Markets (Networks/Power Relations)

Social Movements (Cognitive Frames)

UNIVERSITIES?

(Nicholls, 2011)

Networks: Share meaing and Purpose

Community of Practice: developing new practices

together

System of Influence: new practices starting to be the norm

II. Social Impact of Innovation or Impact of Social Innovation?

(Weathley and Frieze, 2009)

iii. Community Led

Taking Social Innovation to scale

iv. How equipped is the ecosystem?

“We want to differentiate social innovations from ordinary innovations because the world is already amply equipped to produce and disseminate

ordinary innovations (Phills et al., 2008).

II. Social Impact of Innovation or Impact of Social Innovation?

III. Challenges and perspectives

• 27 Universities

• 10 Countries

• 300 students

Social Innovation Ecosystems:

The Case of the Universities in Latin America

Theoretical and Practical

Knowledge

Motivation & Purpose

Transversal Formative

Process

Aligned Strategic Development

Adequate Resources

Fruitful Interactions

III. Challenges and perspectives

III. Challenges and perspectives

1. What can we do with our own theory of change?

2. How do we transit towards this new relationship and

collaboration with communities and other stakeholders?

3. Are we part of the problem or part of the solution?

IV. Questions

Social Impact of Innovation or Impact of Social Innovation?

Thank you!

Social Innovation, Challenges and Perspectives for Higher Education

sgatica@uc.cl