Barriers to Social Innovation and Ways of Overcoming Them in Latvia
Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics 2017
Karine Oganisjana, Yuliya Eremina, Salome Gvatua, Benjamin Ngongo Kabwende, Ozoemena Joseph Chukwu

The paper presents the findings of research conducted to determine the main barriers to social innovation in Latvia and explore the ways they are overcome. The analysis of the qualitative and quantitative data collected while interviewing social innovation projects revealed eight barriers to social innovation. Lack of financing, passivity in the society and administrative and bureaucratic barriers are most frequently faced here. The qualitative content analysis disclosed nine means for overcoming the barriers to social innovation. Three of them: promotional activities, external financial support and external support are most common. Each barrier to social innovation was analyzed also in regard with the means utilized for overcoming it. It showed that there is no universal way to overcome a certain barrier. There could be different combinations of means and actions undertaken. However, the most powerful mean in overcoming barriers to social innovation in Latvia turned out to be promotional activities defined as a set of activities aimed to: educate the society, encourage stakeholders to participate in the project, raise awareness about the topicality of the problem and share information about solutions with the project’s target group.


Atslēgas vārdi
social innovation, barriers to social innovation, overcoming barriers to social innovation, Latvia
Hipersaite
http://www.iiisci.org/journal/sci/FullText.asp?var=&id=SA264XV17

Oganisjana, K., Eremina, Y., Gvatua, S., Ngongo Kabwende, B., Joseph Chukwu, O. Barriers to Social Innovation and Ways of Overcoming Them in Latvia. Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2017, Vol.15, No.5, 33.-38.lpp. ISSN 1690-4524.

Publikācijas valoda
English (en)
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