Mapping Social Innovation Networks (Preliminary draft) *
Résumé
Contrary a widely shared opinion in the literature, this paper brings evidence that social innovations are getting more routinized. This process is not the result of a change in technological regimes in the social economy, but the result of the appearance of new type of actors: the knowledge intensive social services (KISS), which are equivalent to KIBS but for the social economy. Like KIBS, they provide their clients with specific knowledge assisting them in their (social) innovation efforts. A major difference with KIBS is that KISS are also connectors bridging public, private and social actors. We bring evidence that these connecting activities are generating increasingly sophisticated networks.
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