新作坊 Humanity Innovation and Social Practice

A Methodological Framework for Measuring Social Innovation (衡量社會創新的方法框架)

摘要：

This paper introduces a methodological framework to develop dimensions for measuring social innovation capacities of spatial units. The framework is designed to ensure the compatibility of these dimensions with theoretical concepts as well as innovative practices. Therefore, theoretical top-down strategies have been combined with an empirical bottom-up strategy. From the top-down perspective, we assess opportunities and limits of existing metrics of technological-economic innovation in the light of theoretical requirements of social innovation. As an interim result we present measurement dimensions for social innovation at the national level. Within the framework of the bottom-up strategy, we start our analysis from the local level. In qualitative case studies in four German cities, we investigate whether these dimensions are of significance for the innovative practice. In order to study the innovation process in the context of innovative practice we look at the example of the integration of migrants and discuss systemic determinants of social innovativeness. Finally, these systemic implications have been used to modify the measurement dimensions and to adjust them to the local level.

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本文介紹了一種方法框架，以開發用於度量空間單位的社會創新能力的維度。該框架旨在確保這些維度與理論概念和創新實踐兼容，故將理論的(自上而下)的策略，與經驗的(自下而上)的策略相結合。由上到下的觀點，我們根據社會創新的理論，評估了現有技術經濟創新指標的可能性和局限性。作為中期結果，我們提出了國家層面社會創新的衡量維度。在自下而上戰略的框架內，我們從地方層面開始進行分析。在德國四個城市的質性案例研究中，我們調查了這些維度是否對創新實踐具有重要意義。為了在創新實踐的背景下研究創新過程，我們以移民融合為例，並討論了社會創新的系統性決定因素。最後，這些系統性含義已被用於修改衡鑑維度並將其調整到在地基準。