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ResFron ESLS 2016 - Hidden Entrepreneurs? Social Innovation in Italy

Seminar
Hidden Entrepreneurs? Social Innovation in Italy

Filippo Barbera (University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Tania Parisi (University of Turin)

14 March 2016
Room A, h. 13.00-14.30
Graduate School in Social and Political Sciences
via Pace 10 - Milan

This seminar explores the role of "social innovators" in Italy. Drawing on a qualitative research design using respondent-driven sampling (including network analysis) it gives rich insights into the connections between the not-for-profit sector and for-profit sectors. This locus of enquiry istimely because social innovation points to new kinds of production and exchange markets where profit and non-profit organizations interact in distinctive ways. Many of the most successful innovators have learned to operate across sectoral boundaries - and innovation thrives most when there are effective alliances between small organisations and entrepreneurs. This presentation critiques the contemporary trend of portraying social innovation purely as a functional reaction to market and state failure. It thus engages with the analytical challenge of understanding whether social innovation practices satisfy supposedly unmet needs in new ways – and whether such interaction really differs from market-like exchange.

 

This seminar is part of the ResFron ESLS Cycle of seminars - 2016 Edition

 

 

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