Socio-Tech Innovation: Harnessing Technology for Social Good

Poonamallee, Latha; Scillitoe, Joanne; Joy, Simy

This book defines socio-technological innovation and lays out different aspects of technology innovation and adoption literature as applied to socio-tech innovation and entrepreneurship. Socio-tech innovation refers to novel solutions that involve development or adoption of technological innovations to address social and/or environmental problems with a view towards creating benefit for the larger whole rather than just for the owners or investors. Unlike conventional technological innovation, socio-tech innovation either develops a product specifically for underserved markets and adopts a model in which the market is not an afterthought but the rai-son d’etre. Social ventures have not been as successful in scaling up, though technology innovation-led ventures have; therefore, meaningful actionable insights that can help social ventures scale up successfully can be gleaned by this process. This book offers researchers in innovation and entrepreneurship programs a uniqueand interdisciplinary approach to studying social innovation that is grounded in technology innovation. This book features a series of socio-tech venture cases that illustrate these dynamics and can be used in undergraduate and graduate courses.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2020-04-26

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030395537

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-39554-4

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 315