Entreprenörskap: Social innovation - en strategi för hållbarhet

Technical innovations alone have proven to be insufficient to address the pressing challenges of today such as climate change, resource depletion, economic deprivation, poverty alleviation, increased migration and improved life quality. Therefore non-technical innovations are also required to enable transitions to more sustainable solutions. Social innovations include new solutions (products, services, models, markets, processes etc.) that simultaneously meet a social need (more efficiently and effectively than existing solutions) and lead to new or improved capabilities, assets and/or relationships.

This course will provide you with knowledge of how to explore and evaluate social innovations in theory and practice. The course will also explain and provide examples on how to transfer academic knowledge into practice in uncertain environments and how to initiate and carry out teamwork.

The first part of the course contains introduction to the broad academic field of social innovations. In this part you will learn about the broad multi-disciplinary field of social innovations including an introduction to important key concepts in social innovations.

The second part of the course contains application of methods for discovering and evaluating social innovations.

The third part contains the initiation of, and carrying out group assignment/project in their practice of social innovations. In this part you are working in teams during the course. You will practice group assignment/project and how it affects the creation of social innovations.

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