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How to care for people suffering from dementia, supervise juvenile refugees, get people back on their feet again after a breakdown or educate street children? People talk about social innovation when social problems are solved in a new way. New forms of communication for instance, modern techniques and methods or novel cooperation between various institutions and others involved (Howaldt/Black 2010). To think through new problems and to use social innovation – new social practices – to solve them, will certainly present a chance of dealing with current social challenges. There are therefore great expectations connected to social innovation: social change, relief of the welfare state in times of austerity, establishing the basis for new social partnerships, becoming more efficient. In short: making the world a better place. What can social innovation actually achieve and accomplish? [Read more →]