TY - JOUR
T1 - Social innovation in emerging economies
T2 - A national systems of innovation based approach
AU - Rao-Nicholson, Rekha
AU - Vorley, Tim
AU - Khan, Zaheer
PY - 2017/8
Y1 - 2017/8
N2 - Drawing insights from the national systems of innovation and social entrepreneurship literature, this article examines how national systems of innovation (NSI) and social entrepreneurship interact to generate social innovation in emerging economies. Through the examination of a case study of the Emergency and Management Research Institute (EMRI), a public private partnership (PPP), social innovation is found to be an interactive bottom-up collective learning process where EMRI has developed a new model of social innovation. It also highlights the complex context in which social innovation occurs. As a boundary-spanning activity across the public and private sectors, the interactive learning process and associated capability building for social innovation has provided a catalyst for wider social reform and for the development and redesigning of NSI for social innovation-led value creation in emerging economies. Through such an approach, the EMRI has overcome the institutional voids and developed legitimacy through social innovation tailored to the local context; it thereby represents an alternative approach to the often top-down NSI organisations of developed economies.
AB - Drawing insights from the national systems of innovation and social entrepreneurship literature, this article examines how national systems of innovation (NSI) and social entrepreneurship interact to generate social innovation in emerging economies. Through the examination of a case study of the Emergency and Management Research Institute (EMRI), a public private partnership (PPP), social innovation is found to be an interactive bottom-up collective learning process where EMRI has developed a new model of social innovation. It also highlights the complex context in which social innovation occurs. As a boundary-spanning activity across the public and private sectors, the interactive learning process and associated capability building for social innovation has provided a catalyst for wider social reform and for the development and redesigning of NSI for social innovation-led value creation in emerging economies. Through such an approach, the EMRI has overcome the institutional voids and developed legitimacy through social innovation tailored to the local context; it thereby represents an alternative approach to the often top-down NSI organisations of developed economies.
KW - Emerging economy
KW - India
KW - NSI
KW - Social entrepreneurship
KW - Social innovation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85015708123&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.techfore.2017.03.013
DO - 10.1016/j.techfore.2017.03.013
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85015708123
SN - 0040-1625
VL - 121
SP - 228
EP - 237
JO - Technological Forecasting and Social Change
JF - Technological Forecasting and Social Change
ER -