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Toward a Political Theory of Social Innovation: Collective Intelligence and Co-Creation of Social Goods

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The literature on social innovation grew quickly in the early 2000s and is now voluminous. One definition suggests the “penetration of business ideas, management practices, and market principles into the world of and nonprofits and government”. This American styled view puts the emphasis on social enterprise and social entrepreneurship, as is evidenced by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation in the Graduate School of Business.

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  1. 1.

    The symposium discussed “issues such as the challenges of open innovation in the public sector, the differences between co-creation (open innovation) and co-production (open services), the different types of co-creation, the characteristics of co-production initiatives, the factors that influence co-production and co-creation with citizens, the incentives that citizens have to be involved in co-production, the role of open data and social media in co-producing public services” at http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/hicss48/symposium.html.

  2. 2.

    “Co-creation is key to innovation in government,” at http://mind-lab.dk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Understanding_Society_Winter_2010_CBason.pdf.

  3. 3.

    See Sumpter’s website at http://www.collective-behavior.com/Site/Home.html.

  4. 4.

    See http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/361/1465/5.

  5. 5.

    See Social Cognition and Collective Intelligence, http://video.mit.edu/watch/social-cognition-and-collective-intelligence-7792/ featuring the work of Thomas Malone, Director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence at the Sloan School of Management.

  6. 6.

    See http://p2pfoundation.net/Co-Creation.

  7. 7.

    See also the list of “Existing Tools and Communities That the CAPS Projects Build from and Collaborate With” that are mostly web applications, pp. 39–44, at http://booksprints-for-ict-research.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/BS5-CAPS-FIN-003.pdf.

  8. 8.

    See e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic_intelligence and Schuler (2007).

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Peters, M.A. (2020). Toward a Political Theory of Social Innovation: Collective Intelligence and Co-Creation of Social Goods. In: Schröer, A., Engel, N., Fahrenwald, C., Göhlich, M., Schröder, C., Weber, S. (eds) Organisation und Zivilgesellschaft. Organisation und Pädagogik, vol 24. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-18005-8_22

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