Chapter I: Communicative and discursive nature of innovation processes conceptual approaches // Enabling knowledge - Nico Stehr // The role of background knowledge in propensity to innovate: some reflections for a research agenda - Andrea Pozzali // The ways in which innovative practices incarnate: contribution to the formulation of local policies in science, technology and innovation - Maria Teresa Santander Gana, Gloria Baigorrotegui B // Chapter II: Learning capacities of innovating firms // HRD as a resource for innovation two cases from automotive supply and textile i - Silke Geithner, Klaus-Peter Schulz // Linking social aspects and technology in innovation processes a case study from logistics industry - Thomas Schmieder, David Jentsch, Michael Fox // Innovation understanding and processes of Saxon automotive suppliers a quantitative survey - Michael Fox, David Jentsch // Partnership between Bradesco and Society innovation through the social balance sheet - Antonio Oscar Goes, Maria Josefina Fontes, Diogo Cotta // Chapter III: Research and professional organisations and their impact on social dimension of innovation // Social aspects in the governance and organizational model of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology - Massimo G. Colombo, Lorenzo Pirelli, Evila Piva // Unpacking European Living Labs: Analysing Innovation’s Social Dimensions - Benoit Dutilleul, Frans A. J. Birrer, Wouter Mensink // Expansive development through the Change Laboratory-method: Example from Finnish Health care - Hannele Kerosuo, Anu Kajamaa, Yrjö Engeström // Quality Management is Ongoing Social Innovation - Hans Werner Franz // Chapter IV: Innovation in services social resources, current practices, regulatory consequences // Intermediaries as innovating actors: towards a transition to a more sustainable energy system - Julia Backhaus //
The role of expectations in radical system innovation: the Electronic Health Record, immoderate goal or achievable necessity? - Wouter Mensink, Frans A. J. Birrer // Introducing media education into school teaching. An empirical research among public school teachers in Palermo, Italy - Gabriel la Polizzi // Chapter V: Innovation and changing nature of work // Dialogue as a Facilitator of Learning and Development in the National Workplace Development Programme - Maarrit Lahtonen, Nuppu Rouhianen // Key issues and dimensions of innovation in social services and social work - Anne Parpan-Blaser, Matthias Hüttemann // The emerging phenomenon of co working. A redefinition of job market in networking society - Carlotta Bizzarri // Chapter VI: Sectoral and regional dimensions of social innovation // Dynamics in innovation system(s): networks and learning during the rise of the lithographic equipment manufacturing sector in the Netherlands - Shahzad A. Khan, Jaco Quist, Karel F. Mulder // South Moravia on the road to a knowledge region. Does technological innovation exists that is non-social? - Jiří Loudin // EU-27 Long-run Trends in Exports and Imports of Commercial Services in the Global Economy: Identification of the Early Warning Signals of the Poor Results of European Business Service STI Activity? - Jari Kaivo-Oja, Valtteri Kaartemo