Patterns, Principles, and Practices in Social Innovation

Summary

Examining how social innovation opens up new approaches to addressing complex problems, this article looks at some of the complex issues and related social innovation, including demographic problems; technology-enabled social innovation and how it has restructured work and expanded human intelligence; how conflict has been reframed as collaboration; and new types of volunteering. The article concludes with a review of some of the new social innovation tools and processes.