Introduction to the conference The idea and its implementation

Josef Hochgerner Centre for Social Innovation, Vienna

Thank you:

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Welcome, speakers and supporting organisations

European Commission / NET4SOCIETY Austrian Ministry for Science and Research (BMWF) Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) City of Vienna (Stadt Wien) University of Technology, Dortmund (TUDO)

370 Participants from 54 countries of all continents

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Organisers

ZSI, Zentrum für Soziale Innovation – Centre for Social Innovation sfs, Sozialforschungsstelle – Central Scientific Institute of TUDO NET4SOCIETY, Network of National Contact Points for Socio economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) The Steering Committee, Chairs, Speakers, and Hallamasch

The idea of this conference

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Expectations

in social innovations seem to increase boundless At the same time

scientific comprehension and methods

development and measuring the impact of social innovations still fall short to meet such prospect of identification, In general,

innovation requires sound scientific foundations –

than ever in the globalised knowledge society of the 21st century more In order to improve adequate scientific concepts and methodologies concerning social innovations in a wide array of societal challenges, our aim was to

assemble the leading brains in social innovation

The core objective is to

strengthen social sciences and research

pertaining to social innovation, focusing on the provision of knowledge applicable to change social practices – i.e.

to generate social innovation

CSI-2011 shall

establish research topics, research networks, and a firm concept of social innovation

, leading to equal footing of social innovation compared to the prevalent notion of innovation in the corporate sector

Why „CSI Vienna“ ?

  Preceding ICICI conferences since 2008 Social innovation in Austria – The welfare state – Innovation centres and business parks in the 1980s – The Centre for Social Innovation, 1990 – The annual Social Innovation Award „SozialMarie“ since 2005 – www.sozialmarie.org

 Cultural and scientific heritage: Vienna and Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883-1950)

„Schumpeter adopts social innovation“

... a video combining

facts and fiction:

Some key quotations from what Schumpeter wrote about innovation, starting 1911, and assumptions of what he might tell us now, aged 128, on social innovation.