Essence and typology of social innovations

The article examines a new definition of social innovations, which based on the analyses of the essence, characteristic and main features of social innovations. There are presented basic typology of social innovations and shown analysis of successful and unsuccessful projects of social innovations in the world and Russia.

Keywords: social innovations, public sector of economy, social dimension, public goods, institutional economy

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