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SI—social marketing; (h) the contribution of microfinance to SI and the consequent
reduction of poverty; (i) the study of OKM case—the only one about SI in Canada;
(j) the usefulness of the concept of SI to analyze climate adaptation in institutional
environments with complex contexts of vulnerability.
It is also subject: (k) the core processes that support the development of SI; (l)
the materialization factors of SI as well as its consolidation process and propagation;
(m) the analysis of the relationship between SI and its promotion in the patrimony of
health; (n) the analysis of case studies to build a structure which describes SI factors,
as well as SI that create social value and competitive advantage; (o) the importance
of SI processes and the engagement of the interested people in the development of
healthy lifestyles and of existing and emerging sustainable practices; (p) the importance of community engagement by social innovators; and (q) the strategies and
dynamics to enhance social innovation.
In general, what can be analyzed from the interpretation of the data collected in
this study was, above all, the fact that the concept of social innovation is not fully
clear yet, particularly in the academic area. From this, derives the large amount of
scientific articles produced about the need to expand the subject. Nevertheless, it
was also found interesting scientific movements regarding the composition of SI
subsidiaries definitions.
It should be emphasized, one more time, so this article becomes clear that the
analyses made here relate to the universality of the corpus. That is, it is not intended
to compare the articles selected by the two databases, but create one from them.
Thus, the 24 scientific articles produced in the last ten years (2008–2018), on the
theme “Social Innovation”, analyzed in this study, were chosen according to procedures already described in the previous section, and, in general, the brief analysis
proposed in this survey was done.
4 Final Considerations
The results presented in the previous section make a possible reflection—even tough
it is not depth—about the theme of social innovation among academic productions.
The first topic to be discussed regarding this research is the fact that this issue is
relatively recent in the category analyzed here. In other words, the term “Innovation”,
as already explained, was commonly related to the business world. However, it has
been increasingly more often linked to the notion of “social”.
The second topic to be analyzed—which is not only related to the first one, since
it is literally a result of it—is about the productions analyzed, effectively. That is
because it was observed that the number of scientific papers produced over the past
decade on the issue gained greater emphasis in 2013 to the present days, that is, in
the last five years. In addition, it was found that the most common issues related
to social innovation include its lack of specific concepts, as well as some adjacent
themes.
S. A. Santos et al.
SI—social marketing; (h) the contribution of microfinance to SI and the consequent
reduction of poverty; (i) the study of OKM case—the only one about SI in Canada;
(j) the usefulness of the concept of SI to analyze climate adaptation in institutional
environments with complex contexts of vulnerability.
It is also subject: (k) the core processes that support the development of SI; (l)
the materialization factors of SI as well as its consolidation process and propagation;
(m) the analysis of the relationship between SI and its promotion in the patrimony of
health; (n) the analysis of case studies to build a structure which describes SI factors,
as well as SI that create social value and competitive advantage; (o) the importance
of SI processes and the engagement of the interested people in the development of
healthy lifestyles and of existing and emerging sustainable practices; (p) the importance of community engagement by social innovators; and (q) the strategies and
dynamics to enhance social innovation.
In general, what can be analyzed from the interpretation of the data collected in
this study was, above all, the fact that the concept of social innovation is not fully
clear yet, particularly in the academic area. From this, derives the large amount of
scientific articles produced about the need to expand the subject. Nevertheless, it
was also found interesting scientific movements regarding the composition of SI
subsidiaries definitions.
It should be emphasized, one more time, so this article becomes clear that the
analyses made here relate to the universality of the corpus. That is, it is not intended
to compare the articles selected by the two databases, but create one from them.
Thus, the 24 scientific articles produced in the last ten years (2008–2018), on the
theme “Social Innovation”, analyzed in this study, were chosen according to procedures already described in the previous section, and, in general, the brief analysis
proposed in this survey was done.
4 Final Considerations
The results presented in the previous section make a possible reflection—even tough
it is not depth—about the theme of social innovation among academic productions.
The first topic to be discussed regarding this research is the fact that this issue is
relatively recent in the category analyzed here. In other words, the term “Innovation”,
as already explained, was commonly related to the business world. However, it has
been increasingly more often linked to the notion of “social”.
The second topic to be analyzed—which is not only related to the first one, since
it is literally a result of it—is about the productions analyzed, effectively. That is
because it was observed that the number of scientific papers produced over the past
decade on the issue gained greater emphasis in 2013 to the present days, that is, in
the last five years. In addition, it was found that the most common issues related
to social innovation include its lack of specific concepts, as well as some adjacent
themes.