The Social Innovation Dynamic – by Frances Westley

Frances Westley, best-selling author of “Getting to Maybe: How the World is Changed” and J.W. McConnell Chair in Social Innovation at the University of Waterloo, on the definition of social innovation:

Social innovation is an initiative, product or process or program that profoundly changes the basic routines, resource and authority flows or beliefs of any social system. Successful social innovations have durability and broad impact. While social innovation has recognizable stages and phases, achieving durability and scale is a dynamic process that requires both emergence of opportunity and deliberate agency, and a connection between the two. The capacity of any society to create a steady flow of social innovations, particularly those which re-engage vulnerable populations, is an important contributor to the overall social and ecological resilience.

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