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A large-scale international project ‘SI DRIVE: Social innovation, driving force of social change 2014-2017” collected 1,005 cases of social innovation across the globe in seven policy fields: Education, Employment, Energy, Transport , Poverty, Health and Environment (Howaldt et al., 2016). From those 1,005 cases 82 were selected for in-depth case study. These 82 cases are re-analysed in a secondary analysis using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). How are these social innovations developing; is there a resemblance with the ‘innovation journey’ (Van de Ven et al., 2008) of innovations in technology/business? The innovation journey is a process model that makes a distinction between the initiation, developmental and implementation/termination period of innovations; it looks at drivers and barriers, like innovation managers, investors, setbacks, adaptation, infrastructure. We operationalise this model, its periods and variables and apply it to the process of social innovation, to gain insight in the dynamics of these rather new practices of (social) innovation and in the character of collaboration between actors. The results show that out of 128 possible combinations of seven variables - elements of the innovation journey model - six combinations have the highest chance to result in adoption of the social innovation. None of those variables is a necessary nor a sufficient condition for adoption. While differing ‘paths lead to Rome’, no assurance can be given that ‘anything goes’, because the six empirical paths limit theoretical options. The implications for practitioners is to study the six successful combinations and steer their social innovation initiatives. |
