内容简介：
社会创新已经成为全球社会发展中的热门概念，各国政府纷纷大力推动社会创新和社会部门的发展。社会创新的涌现模式、社会行为的变迁机制都成为理论和实践界的关注焦点，但是大都是基于西方国家案例的讨论。近年来社会创新实践在中国也风起云涌，本研究希望通过文献梳理和多样本的案例分析来描绘中国当前社会创新的宏观图景和创新者个人传记特征、创新路径，并在此基础上试图揭示中国社会创新的可能定义和驱动机制以及与当前西方有关理论模型上的异同。
The designation “social entrepreneurship” or “social entrepreneurship” has gained popularity in recent years. During the past decade, national governments have made unprecedented shifts in supporting social innovation and the social sector. China’s debut into the field of social innovation begs many questions about the future and nature of social innovation itself. Most academic literature around social innovation has been focused and evidenced through Western examples or how social innovation has thus operated under Western governments. China’s form and process of social innovation may be unparalleled and may challenge existing concepts and assumptions around social innovation. In exploring this new area of research, this article seeks to do three things: (1) to summarize, through literature review, the current knowledge that exists around social innovation, (2) to use a large number of Chinese cases study on existing social innovation to test the existing knowledge, and (3) to arrive at a new, more comprehensive understanding of social innovation that incorporates social innovation in China.
