Measurement of Social Innovation at Organisation’s Level: Theoretical Issues

Civil society organisations, social innovation and health research in Europe.

BACKGROUND European Union strategies and programmes identify research and innovation as a critical dimension for future economic and social development. While European research policy emphasizes support for industry, the health field includes not-for-profit civil society organisations (CSOs) providing social innovation. Yet, the perspectives of CSOs towards health research in Europe are not wel...

Sectoral social dialogue at EU level: Current issues and prospects

In spring 2010 the Commission will issue its most recent Communication on social dialogues focusing this time exclusively on sectoral social dialogues (SSD). We take this official declaration of political plans and outline of future procedural structuring as the opportunity to elaborate on more recent developments and perspectives with a focus on sectoral social dialogues. In other words, where...

Leading Innovation within Public Organisations

Issues in Facility-Level Pollution Prevention Measurement

Issues in developing measures of pollution prevention at the process-level and facility-level are reviewed, based on existing literature. Pollution prevention can be measured based on changes in waste or changes in materials use. The measurement can be further be adjusted to account for changes in production or may be left as an absolute measure, but choosing an accurate index may be difficult....

The Determination of Social Needs as Drivers of Social Innovation

Social innovation has been contextualized as a new way of resolving deeply entrenched development issues. The identification and resolution of social needs is said to be the driving force of social innovation. With features such as sustainability and scalability, social innovation has the potential to change the way we perceive and engage with development in the future. This research takes a cr...