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Inspirational Readings

BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS

Social Innovation and Resilience: How One Enhances the Other

Supplement to Stanford Social Innovation Review funded by the Rockefeller Foundation

Westley, F.

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Manifesto for Transformative Social Innovation

TRANSIT research project team

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From Transition to Transformation - Sustainable and Inclusive Development in Europe and Central Asia

United Nations

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To Transition! Governance Panarchy in the new Transformation

Derk Loorbach

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SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

Urban transformative capacity: From concept to practice

Ambio, Volume 48, Issue 5, 2019

Wolfram, M., Borgström, S., & Farrelly, M.

 

Towards a typology of intermediaries in sustainability transitions: A systematic review and a research agenda

Research Policy, Volume 48, Issue 4, 2018

Kivimaa, P., Boon, W., Hyysalo, S., & Klerkx, L.

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Actor roles in transition: Insights from sociological perspectives

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Volume 24, 2017

Wittmayer, J., Avelino, F., van Steenbergen, F., & Loorbach, D.

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Growing grassroots innovations: Exploring the role of community-based initiatives in governing sustainable energy transitions

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Volume 30, Issue 3, 2012

Seyfang, G. and Haxeltine, A. 

 

Sustainability transitions in the making: A closer look at actors, strategies and resources

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 79, Issue 6, 2012

Farla, J., Markard, J., Raven, R., & Coenen, L.

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Making a Difference -Strategies for Scaling Social Innovation for Greater Impact

The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal, Volume 15, Issue 2, 2010

Westley, F., & Antadze, N.

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PROJECTS

TRANSIT

Transformative Social Innovation Theory

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CATALISE

Capacitation of Local Transition and Social Innovation

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ATLANTIC SOCIAL LAB

Social Innovation in the Atlantic Countries

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SINOVPROC

Development of a Conceptual Process Model and Metrics Framework for Social Innovation

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OTHERS

Carta Social

Intends to show the social responses, with social action scope, that exist in Portugal and are within the Portuguese Government jurisidction

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SILAB

Social Innovation Lab from Instituto Superior Técnico promotes the development of projects with social impact, fulfilling the needs of local and emerging communities

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INNO

Centre of Social Innovation from the Nova University Lisbon with the goal of developing, creating and improving social structures and processes and the mission of contributing to the social development and harmony of the population by establishing a dynamic and distinctive relation between the Nova University Lisbon and several social entities

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4iS

Platform for Social Innovation linked to the University of Aveiro that aims to boost the development of SI with the academic community, the old students of University of Aveiro and the Aveiro region

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