Social Innovation in Education and Social Service Organizations. Challenges, Actors, and Approaches to Foster Social Innovation

Social innovation became a widely discussed topic in politics, research funding programs, and business development. Recent European US economic science policies have set aside significant funds to generate foster social innovation. In view of current challenges such as digitization, Work 4.0, inclusion or migrant integration, the question how organizations can be empowered develop new innovative approaches service models is becoming increasingly urgent. This especially applies fields education services. education, implementing ideas concepts usually educational reform, which mostly addresses changes policy agendas with consequences for national international systems. The concept however has different starting point: source services are identified new, emergent needs society re-conceptualized. Such need-based perspectives might bring impulses field education. Therefore, this paper identifies important existing strands research, need considered emerging academic discourse on Looking at through an lens reveals close relation between learning, creativity, Individuals, teams, even learn, engage creative problem solving create products From organizational perspective, questions arise, emerges more important, process developing supported. After brief introduction innovation, discusses therefore sites, where emerges, innovators, well promoting hindering factors