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View article: Innovation Doesn’t Work: The Explanatory Power of a Socio-Technical Approach
Innovation Doesn’t Work: The Explanatory Power of a Socio-Technical Approach Open
This comment engages with two questions introduced by Alan Irwin’s introductory essay to this thematic collection on STS and Innovation (2023), and invites the reader to reflect on them as parts of a problem-solution relationship: When it …
View article: When Circular Economy Meets Inclusive Development. Insights from Urban Recycling and Rural Water Access in Argentina
When Circular Economy Meets Inclusive Development. Insights from Urban Recycling and Rural Water Access in Argentina Open
How is it possible to design and deploy circular economy (CE) strategies oriented to inclusive development? How can non-traditional units of production and consumption (i.e., actual productive actors such as waste picker cooperatives and p…
View article: Transformative Social Innovation for Food Sovereignty: The Disruptive Alternative
Transformative Social Innovation for Food Sovereignty: The Disruptive Alternative Open
In the last decade, a new concept has emerged in Europe and the Americas to explain a ‘new’ phenomenon of societal and technological organization oriented to the resolution of social and environmental issues: social innovation. In certain …
View article: Potentialities and constraints in the relation between social innovation and public policies: some lessons from South America
Potentialities and constraints in the relation between social innovation and public policies: some lessons from South America Open
Social innovation (SI) can offer alternative forms of organization and novel solutions to complex problems faced by contemporary societies. As governments face increasing pressures from mounting societal challenges, it is assumed that SI c…