Sustainability Unwrapped

This episode gets an insight of the social innovation as a theory and as a process. We hear about the differences between Anglo-American and Euro-Canadian approach to social innovation and how social innovation research has been instrumental in introducing a new pluralism in institutional debates within the social sciences in the past decade.

Show Notes

Social innovation is often touted as one of the keyways in which we can address various sustainability challenges. It is understood as an innovation process that can stretch the boundaries of creativity and flexibility to develop new and pragmatic solutions.  
  
While the concept and the process of social innovation are important tools for societal development, there are different understandings of what social innovation is or should be. Contemporary scientific and policy discourses tend to ignore the social in the process of solving challenges. Oftentimes, the offered solutions are technology-, organisation- or market-oriented, putting a lot of emphasis on the end results rather than on the ethical and social aspects.

What is Sustainability Unwrapped?

“Sustainability Unwrapped” is a conversational podcast, where science meets practice to think about our world and how to make it more sustainable. The podcast is produced by Hanken School of Economics.