VYSKOČIL, Marek and Jakub PEJCAL. Publicly Funded Social Innovation. In Dagmar Špalková; Lenka Matějová. Current Trends in Public Sector Research. 1st ed. Brno: Masaryk University, 2015, p. 416-423. ISBN 978-80-210-7532-0.
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Original name Publicly Funded Social Innovation
Authors VYSKOČIL, Marek (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Jakub PEJCAL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition 1. vyd. Brno, Current Trends in Public Sector Research, p. 416-423, 8 pp. 2015.
Publisher Masaryk University
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Original language English
Type of outcome Proceedings paper
Field of Study 50200 5.2 Economics and Business
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14560/15:00082318
Organization unit Faculty of Economics and Administration
ISBN 978-80-210-7532-0
ISSN 2336-1239
UT WoS 000355547600050
Keywords in English non-profit sector; social innovation; public sector; interdependence theory; financing
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Abstract
This paper critically focuses on the latest theory which considers the non-governmental non-profit sector to be the major and always civic-minded social innovator, nearly unbeatable by its private for-profit and public non-profit “competitors” as regards generated innovations. The idea that the non-governmental non-profit sector is somehow superior in terms of generated social innovations is also frequently mentioned in the current scientific and research projects dealing with this phenomenon, for example “The Theoretical, Empirical and Policy Foundations for Social Innovation in Europe (TEPSIE)”, “Impact of the Third Sector and Social Innovation (ITSSOIN)” and a number of other projects that are smaller in their scale (but not less important), to name but a few. The present contribution (that takes into account the selected theories of the non-governmental non-profit sector) answers the question of whether it is actually possible to consider the non-governmental non-profit sector to be a self-reliant innovator independent of the public support. On the basis of a detailed study of a group of projects that can be considered to be examples of good practice in the field of social innovations, the paper outlines the real role played by the non-governmental non-profit sector in their development. Hence, it also provides answers with respect to the necessity and importance of engagement of the remaining sectors in the socially-innovative activities.
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