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The Nature of Social Innovation

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Historical analyses of macro-level innovation across the developed economies often identify a series of waves of technological change, typically starting with the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century (Kondratiev, 1998; Alexander, 2001; Moulaert, 2009). Each wave is usually presented as distinct from what came before, but also as sharing particular economic and social outcomes.

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Nicholls, A., Murdock, A. (2012). The Nature of Social Innovation. In: Nicholls, A., Murdock, A. (eds) Social Innovation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230367098_1

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