Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to review the literature that relates Social Innovation (SI), Grassroots Innovation (GI) and Technology Social Ventures (TSVs) in terms of how they are employed towards tackling social and environmental challenges from a bottom-up perspective.Also, since the fast development of technologies and increase in social entrepreneurial studies was booting at that TSVs came as novel entrepreneurship aggregating social entrepreneurship values with modern technology.Building on a meta-analysis of peerreviewed literatures and case studies available from the Scopus database, applying keyword searches such as "social innovation," "grassroots innovation," "bottom-up social innovation," and "technology social venture", this paper helps to distinguish dimensions of agents, drivers, purposes, and process in SI, GI, and TSV.The review specifically emphasizes the case that technological developments in TSVS can provide novel, scalable social solutions and are compatible with bottom-up, grassroots-driven strategies.The results furthermore introduce a new theoretical lens for examining bottom-up SI progression within an emerging technology environment.
Authors: Swee Jet Lim, Noraindah Abdullah Fahim
Institution: University of Technology Malaysia
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: European Commission
OpenAlex ID: W4405915697