Function and Role of Social Innovation

Abstract

Argument about the usual social innovation has been discussed variously from the micro point of view and the macro point of view since the 1960's. But, those arguments were confined to a partial interpretation like creation of the regeneration of the area and the middle organization, and then only a term had walked them one person without detailed argument. So, the purpose of this thesis is to analyze the function of the social innovation which hasn't been discussed fully and a role from the point of view of the business and the society. The priority of the solution of the social problem which a market function was used for as a center function of the social innovation is discussed in this paper first. Next, I divide that social innovation into three, and indicate it clearly with the case. Then, the common process of that social innovation is explained from six stages. The function of the social innovation clears the matter that the stabilization of the market and the composition of the market society change it from the argument until now. Multiplex governance structure and the need of the collaboration with other sectors are explained at the end to make a social innovation work.