Social Innovation for Sustainability Challenges

How Frugal Innovation Promotes Social Sustainability

There is a need to develop an understanding of how frugal innovation promotes social sustainability. The objective of this paper is to find the connections between the two concepts of social sustainability and frugal innovation, by reviewing the existing literature concerning both fields. This paper presents a framework that identifies essential themes of social sustainability and explores them...

Traditional Textile Design for Social Innovation Toward Sustainability in Japan

Introduction Production of traditional textiles by local communities often tends to become too traditional and old-fashioned separating from our lives and social life. However they are made of natural materials in safe and good quality, so-called earth-friendly materials. Reexamining such traditional textiles are going to be significant for the sustainable life and society in our times and in t...

Sustainability, Development, Social Justice: Towards a New Politics of Innovation

We live in a time of unprecedented advance in science and technology, with global annual spending on research and development (R&D) now exceeding a trillion dollars. Yet development challenges have also grown. For many people and places, poverty is deepening, and the environment is in crisis. Thousands of children die daily from waterborne diseases, and more than a billion people go hungry. Mee...

Long-Term Educational Sustainability: Educational Innovation in Social Vulnerability Contexts

This paper investigates the behavior of children from low socioeconomic status families and examines the effects of a socioemotional education program on aggression in children. The results of the program are compared according to the children’s gender and age, the family structure, the parents’ educational attainment, and social status. The results show that applying socioemotional education p...

Sustainability - Oriented Innovation