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Design for Social Innovation: Redefining the Concept

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Social innovation is currently an ill-defined concept, which hinders understanding of it. This paper addresses the issues with current definitions and proposes a framework within which to rewrite the definitions to enhance comprehension of the term ‘social innovation’.

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  1. School of Industrial Design, Faculty of Engineering and Design, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

    Meg Schwellnus

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  1. School of Management, University College London (UCL), London, UK

    Evangelos Markopoulos

  2. Division ISD, HKUST, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Ravindra S. Goonetilleke

  3. School of Arts & Social Sciences, Department of Creative Arts, The Open University of Hong Kong, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Amic G. Ho

  4. Asian Ergonomics Design Lab, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Yan Luximon

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Schwellnus, M. (2020). Design for Social Innovation: Redefining the Concept. In: Markopoulos, E., Goonetilleke, R., Ho, A., Luximon, Y. (eds) Advances in Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Communication of Design. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1218. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51626-0_10

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