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Going beyond GDP: The Role of Social Innovation in Building a Welfare State

Going beyond GDP: The Role of Social Innovation in Building a Welfare State
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Author(s): Seyithan Ahmet Ates (Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey), Muradiye Ates (Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey)and Murat Ali Yülek (Istanbul Commerce University, Turkey)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 17
Source title: Handbook of Research on Social Entrepreneurship and Solidarity Economics
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): José Manuel Saiz-Álvarez (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0097-1.ch002

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Abstract

A redirection towards well-being with a view to produce lasting social and economic vitality for the global civilization necessitates moving from conventional economic methods towards innovative solutions, which are necessary to face challenges of the future to foster sustainable growth. Social innovation and its agents can be considered as a toolbox which may facilitate a transition by positively influencing well-being, developing ways of integrating it into policy, and promoting it as an alternative measure of progress. Social innovation may increase the role of civil society in solving social problems, while sustaining and improving people's well-being beyond increasing their welfare in monetary term. By providing up-to-date solutions to challenges ranging from global warming to fair income distribution, and from social innovative entrepreneurs to grass-rooted innovation, social innovation seems to be capable of transforming the society in a way to tackle with a new kind of societal problems, and of exploring new ways to create added value for the economy.

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