Social Innovation in Higher Education: Landscape, Practices, and Opportunities

This open-access book provides a comprehensive overview of social innovation in higher education, exploring its landscape, tools, practices, pedagogies, and research. It features contributions from international academics and industry leaders, offering new developments, research evidence, and practice expertise. The book showcases how HEIs can respond to societal challenges, support positive social change, and contribute to international public policy discourse. It identifies factors driving success and obstacles, examines the benefits of effective social innovation engagement, and adopts an interdisciplinary approach, making it a valuable resource for scholars, students, policy-makers, and practitioners in economics, education, business, management, political science, and sociology.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 313 pages
Publication date: 21 December 2021
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This open-access book presents unique and innovative perspectives on the social innovation landscape, tools, practices, pedagogies, and research in the context of higher education. International, multidisciplinary academics and industry leaders showcase new developments, research evidence, and practice expertise on social innovation in higher education institutions (HEIs), across academic and professional disciplines. The book encompasses a curated selection of peer-reviewed chapters that offer diverse viewpoints against which relevant actors can identify and analyze social innovation in HEIs. This volume demonstrates how HEIs can respond to societal challenges, support positive social change, and contribute to the development of international public policy discourse. It answers the critical question of how the present higher education system, in different countries, promotes social innovation and creates social change and impact. In addressing this question, the book identifies factors driving success as well as obstacles. Furthermore, it examines how higher education innovation assists societal challenges and investigates the benefits of effective social innovation engagement by HEIs. The interdisciplinary approach of the volume makes it a must-read for scholars, students, policy-makers, and practitioners of economics, education, business and management, political science, and sociology interested in gaining a deeper understanding of social innovation.

Weight: 514g
Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030840464
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022