Creating (Economic) Space for Social Innovation

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About the Authors

Rafael Ziegler is head of research of GETIDOS at the University of Greifswald. His main research areas are political philosophy, environmental ethics and philosophy of science. GETIDOS conducts research on sustainable solutions and offers education on these topics. With the GETIDOS team, Rafael published “Social entrepreneurship in the water sector—getting things done sustainably” (Cheltenham 2014), and co-initiated the “big jump challenge—European youth campaign for water protection.”

György Molnár is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Economics, CERS, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and head of the Public economics and public policy research unit there. His research interest includes welfare economics, poverty, social innovation and social microcredit. As a volunteer, he is an expert and board member of a Hungarian microfinance initiative, Kiútprogram, working mainly in poor Roma neighbourhoods.

EnricaChiappero-Martinetti is Full professor of Economics at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Pavia. She is Director of the Human Development, Capability and Poverty International Research Centre. For the term 2014–2018 she is appointed as an Extraordinary Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Free State, South Africa. She acts as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities and she has been Vice-President of the Human Development and Capability Association for the terms 2004–2008 and 2010–2011. Her main research interests are in the field of poverty and income inequality measurement; multidimensional approaches to poverty and well-being, capability and human development approach; fuzzy sets theory and fuzzy logic for well-being analysis; gender inequality, unpaid work, and female empowerment.

Nadia von Jacobi is post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford and Adjunct Professor in International Cooperation and Development Policies at the University of Pavia. She holds a PhD in Economics, Law and Institutions and her main research interests comprise the institutions and development link, institutional interconnections and public and social policies for poverty and inequality reduction.

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Funding

The research of all contributing authors has been financed by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement number 613261.