What does stimulate innovation?

Group one:

  • Have strong evidence (facts and figures) of unmet needs (social, labour market ....);
  • Not fearing to put your everyday work into question;
  • Thinking "outside the box"
  • "Openness" to recognise goals aren't being met and to ask for "outside" help (partnership, networking, exchange with other your weaknesses, failures and strengths - having not fear of sharing and exchanging);
  • Creativity
  • Engagement to change
  • ESF Programmes can help bring some innovative solutions scale (within an acceptable time frame)

 

Group two:

  • Action
  • Passion
  • Partnership (with power)
  • Listen .... ed
  • Problem diagnosis
  • Innovation is developed in the border of standards
  • Social innovation starts from problem diagnoses and is developed by partnership(s) creating joint solutions. 


Group three:

  • Urgent pressing need/better way of doing things
  • Horizonal communication
  • Having an overarching vision and clear aims and objectives
  • Identifying brokers/enabling agents who can push for change
  • Persuasion and persistance

 

Group four:

  • The social innovation is not only to solve social problems but to create new opportunities
  • The focus is not on problems but on solutions
  •  The innovation is a process, more than a goal

What stimulates innovation is:

  • democratic leadership
  • participation/envolvement
  • contribute groups of different stakeholders
  • passion. 

 
Group five:

  • passion
  • empowerment
  • partnership
  • patience 

 

Group six:

What stimulates social innovation is:

  • the ability to mobilize energies from individuals and organisations in order to understand better social issues (adopting self-criticism as a guiding skill) thus generating different and better solutions that can deal in a more efective way with those problems
  • ...in order to better diagnose and solve social issues/problems, granting necessary political commitment.

EQUAL PRINCIPLES

S.I. = F (L, E, SM. P, G, Sk, Fx, C, A)

L = Listening

E = Empowerment

SM = Self-management

P = Partnership

G = Gender

Fx = Flexibility

C = Courage

A = Anger

 

In other words S.I = F (EP)

 

e = MC squared

M = Mainstreaming

C = Cooperation

e = mobilizing, energy

 

Group seven

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