Discover the newsletter of the RNI: Infonews April 2012

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Springer Encyclopedia on Creativity, invention, innovation and entrepreneurship (CI2E) - Entrepreneurship volume - Website

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Study Day INNOVATION 2012 - the 4th of June 

“The French innovation system, what challenges in a context of a globalized economy?” June, 4th, 2012 Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie - Paris

Organized by the Research Network of innovation with the collaboration of la Caisse des dépôts et consignations and Universcience

• Date : Monday the 04th of June 2012 from 09:00 to 17:00.
• Place : Cité des Sciences et de l’industrie - La Villette (Paris)
• FREE ENTRY
  
• Obligatory registration (no later than May, 21st, 2012) by sending an e-mail to : rri-com@univ-littoral.fr
• Registration form : Click here to download
• Program:  Click here to download the program

The event’s website

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Summer school 2012: (NEW) “The new dimensions of sectoral systems of innovation“, from August, 29th to September, 1st 2012 in Montpellier (IMPORTANT : Call for papers, extended to May 31st 2012)

To register : http://ecole-rri2012.cirad.fr/en/

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Call for contributions - A special Issue of Innovations, Cahiers d’Économie de l’Innovation on “The Economy of Luxury: Between Creativity and Innovation ”

Deadline for sending full texts (in French): June, 30th 2012

Download the call for contributions: Call for papers - Economy of Luxury

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The RRI’s reviews : just published…

“Innovation Processes and Institutions” Journal of Innovation Economics, Issue n°9, 2012/1 Disponible gratuitement sur le site de CAIRN

“Environnement et opportunités d’innovation”  Innovations, Cahiers d’Économie de l’Innovation   N°37, 2012/1 (available on CAIRN)

Management de la distribution  C Gallouj et M.H. Vigliano (dir) Marché et Organisations n°15   L’Harmattan, 2011

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The social economy enterprise, potential for innovations

Par Nathalie Ferreira

Initially, the social economy is deployed as an alternative model of social organization. It appeared in the heart of the 19th century with the constitution of the first associations of cooperative type and the self-organization of workers. Today, faced with excesses of capitalism, there has been a re-emergence solidarity and cooperative practices somewhere on the border of sectors public and private, and opening so a new way in economic management and organization of work. These social and solidarity economy initiatives are a vibrant third sector and are of social innovations, including participation of workers and democracy.

Over these two past decades, this situation is observable across the world. Indeed, the digging of the phenomena of insecurity, social exclusion, poverty is accompanied by global development new social practices (popular economy, fair trade, solidarity finance, social money, sustainable development) replying to new social demands, new needs. The most significant examples are the protection of the environment, support of disabled and elderly people, and the vocational rehabilitation of inmates. These initiatives then allow people to rearrange the Interior market of the capitalist economic system on a basis of solidarity, proximity and democracy.

Social economy enterprises are therefore a kind of “laboratory of innovation and experimentation social economy of new social practices”. But this observation raises the question of the superiority of social economy enterprises innovation to classic enterprises. Contrary, to what say some economists, the answer is not itself. Indeed, an increasing number of private sector enterprises engaged in recent years in the way of social responsibility (by investing in ethical funds, for example), the excesses of globalization showing of new concepts, such as social responsibility enterprises and the corporate citizen. Today, a growing number of classic enterprises (multinationals, large corporations and SMEs) promote social responsibility strategies and contribute to social goals and to the protection of the environment. With the development of these new entrepreneurial approaches, it becomes thus more difficult draw perfectly sealed borders between the enterprises considered classic, and those of the social and solidarity economy.

Nevertheless, the social economy enterprise is originally a matrix from which innovation can arise in at least three directions. First, the social economy innovation by giving some relatively dominated actors, with access to the power of the entrepreneur, undertaking projects that they could achieve individually. Second, the activities are implemented also new because it’s necessary but neglected activity by the State or the market. Third, the rules of operation are also unpublished in the world of production of goods or services as they both cover the grouping of people and the enterprise of even their report under the terms of the membership and activity. Thus, if the social economy enterprise can be seen as innovative, it is essentially because it involves interaction since its creation, a group of people and a enterprise capable of mobilizing financial and human resources to produce goods or services. “Undertake otherwise” is not a simple view of the spirit but a reality!

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