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Table 1 (continued)
Authors
Definition
Means to transform
reality
Social aim
Pol and Ville (2009,
p. 881)
“An innovation is
termed a social
innovation if the
implied new idea has
the potential to
improve either the
quality or the quantity
of life”
New ideas
Quality of life or
longevity
Westley and Antadze
(2010, p. 2)
“Social innovation is a
complex process of
introducing new
products, processes, or
programs that
profoundly change the
basic routines,
resource and authority
flow, or beliefs of the
social system in which
the innovation occurs.
Such successful social
innovations have
durability and broad
impact”
New products,
processes or programs
Routines, beliefs,
resource flows
Cajaiba-Santana
(2014, p. 3)
“(…) the process of
social innovation
creation as new ideas
manifested in social
actions leading to
social change and
proposing new
alternatives and new
social practices for
social groups”
New ideas and social
actions
New alternatives
and new social
practices
Nicholls and Dees
(2015, p. 1)
“Social innovation
refers to the processes
and outcomes that
develop a novel
approach to addressing
a social problem or
need”
Processes
Social needs
Source Drawn by authors based on literature review (2019)