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State of the Union on Social Innovation
Gianluca Misuraca, IESI Project LeaderEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre
Brussels - September 26, 2016
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Outline
1. How far has Social Innovation taken us? Exploring the role of ICTs for innovating social policies
2. What is the impact of Social Innovation projects in Europe? Assessing the return on investment of social policy innovation
3. What can Social Innovation contribute to? A Future of Welfare perspective
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Background
Policy efforts increasingly focus on innovation, more and more impinging on ‘social innovation’, emphasizing also the possibilities of ICTs to
contribute modernising social protection systems
ICT-Enabled Social Innovation can help making existing service more efficient and effective, but also produce new services as a result of integration among different policy silos
Social Investment Package (SIP)
Many initiatives have been launched and funds allocated, yet there is no evidence
on the impacts obtained
to address unemployment, poverty and social exclusion challenges and
sustainability issues posed by the economic crisis and demographic change
Towards Social Investment for Growth and Cohesion:including implementing the ESF 2014-2020
COM(2013)83 – 20.02.2013
42014 2015 2016
Experts and Stakeholders' Consultation (i.e. peer-reviews, workshops, events, community-building)
i-FRAME (Methodological framework of analysis of social and economic impacts)
Year 12014 Mapping & Analysis Year 2 Year 3
1st WS 2014
5th WS 2016
3rd WS 2015
2015 Mapping& Thematic Analyses
2016 Mapping & Case study Analyses
Conceptualisation Refinement & Consolidation
Validation & Recommendations
2nd WS 2015
4th WS 2016
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Mapping Social Policy Innovation in the EU
Structured relational database with › 600 IESI initiatives emerging phenomenon across
EU, well established in north, continental and south Europe
Marrying ICTs & SI is key to
enforce disruptive change to cope with the increasing
complexity of social services
Analysis of mapping show a trend towards high-service
integration and multi-sector partnership
a growing number of initiatives taking the path towards transformative innovation
Source: Misuraca G., et al., – IESI Knowledge Map 2015
ICT-enabled innovation potential (Misuraca, et al. 2015)
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0.0%
20.0%
40.0%
60.0%
80.0%
100.0%
120.0%
Tech
nical/
incre
mental
inno
vatio
n
Sustai
ned/o
rgan
isatio
nal in
nova
tion
Disrup
tive/t
rans
formati
ve in
nova
tion
Radica
l/tran
sform
ative
inno
vatio
n
Need-driven/outcome-oriented production
Open process of co-creation/collaborative innovation networks
Fundamental change in the relationships between stakeholders
Public value allocation and/or re-allocation
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Consolidated IESI Mapping 2014-2016
Preliminary Observations
Source: University of Manchester for JRC, 2016
The IESI Inventory comprises 605 Initiatives covering 12 areas of PSSGI
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140… in over 50 countries
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech
Rep
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
German
y
Greece
Hungary
Irelan
dIta
lyLatv
ia
Lithuan
ia
Luxemburg
Malta
Netherl
ands
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
Others0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
Primary PSSGI Childcare Education and training
Social assistance Social care Social housing Employability
Main Co-occurrence
Education and training (0.43)
Social inclusion/participation (0.46)
Social inclusion/participation (0.62)
Social inclusion/participation (0.69)
Social assistance (0.23)
Education and training (0.73)
Co-occurrences
Social assistance (0.36)
Employability (0.44)
Social care (0.45)
Civic engagement (0.26)
Social inclusion/participation (0.23)
Employment (0.45)
Social care (0.29)
Employment (0.17)
Education and training (0.25)
Social assistance (0.26)
Social inclusion/participation (0.45)
Childcare (0.25)
Primary PSSGI Employment Social inclusion/participation
Civic engagement Independent living Integrated care Prevention, health promotion and rehabilitation
Main Co-occurrence
Employability (0.79)
Education and training (0.41)
Social inclusion/participation (0.37)
Prevention, health promotion and rehabilitation (0.51)
Independent living (0.68)
Independent living (0.42)
Co-occurrences
Social inclusion/participation (0.51)
Civic engagement (0.27)
Education and training (0.1)
Integrated care (0.42)
Prevention, health promotion and rehabilitation (0.54)
Integrated care (0.31)
Education and training (0.35)
Social assistance (0.22)
Social care (0.09)
Social inclusion/participation (0.31)
Social care (0.36)
Social inclusion/participation (0.23)
Employability (0.18)
Employment (0.17)
There is a high degree of co-occurrence: 78% of initiatives provide 2 or more social services
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SI support modernising EU Social Protection Systems
Case Studies in different welfare systems & PSSGI 14 Member States in 2015-16 Other 14 'thematic' in 2016-17
Crucial role of ICTs in enabling integration and enhancing impact of services delivery must go along with
organizational re-engineering
Different Governance model characteristics have subsidiary role in SPS modernisation A multi-stakeholders policy
framework supporting reforms and their sustainability is key
Source: Misuraca G., et al., 2016, forthcoming
'Systemic effect' of SI promoting social
investment through the transformational
nature of ICTs
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Challenges for SI Impact evaluation
Conceptual 'fuzzyness' and 'moving targets'…
Unknown universes and unclear 'units of analysis'…
'Anecdotal evidence' & unavailability or poor quality of data…
Lack of scientific rigorous evaluation / limited capacities of 'actors'
Lack of robust methodological tools for data gathering / evaluation
Often ‘evidence building' for policy/investment decision support rather than contribution to fill knowledge gaps…
Need of balancing social and economic outcomes / value perspectives
Lack of approaches to unveil complexity of social phenomena and address 'wicked problems' embedded in social policies and systems
Source: Misuraca G., et al., – 2015 (i-FRAME V1.0)
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Addressing the quest for social impact assessment
Source: Misuraca G., et al., 2016
POPULATION
FINANCIALSEMPLOYMENT
HEALTH…
SERVICE PROCESS
SERVICE RESOURCES
KPI
INVESTMENT EFFETCS
Proposal of methodological framework to assess impacts generated by ICT-enabled social innovation initiatives promoting social investment (i-FRAME) to serve as a framework for conducting analysis of return on investment of social
policy innovation initiatives and simulating impacts of social policy interventions
System DynamicsJay Forrester, 1950s
Agent Based1990s
The System
Individual-centric
System-level
Discrete,Disaggregated
Continuous,Aggregated
Process-centric(Discrete Event)
Geoffrey Gordon, 1960s
Source: Anylogic extension
HYBRID
Toward the i-FRAME 2.0
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DSI Ecosystems & networks' effects
Some first elaborations
Source: PlusValue & IMT-Lucca for JRC, 2016
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Contribution to the EU consultation on the Future of welfare systems to identify essential principles
common to euro-zone Member States to move towards a deeper and fairer EMU
Draft proposal of scenarios framework of analysis in view of a EU-wide Survey
on The Future of Welfare Systems planned to be launched in collaboration with academic and industry partners
High Engagement
Welfare 2.0Unlocking the
'Sharing Welfare paradigm'
Low Engagement
Low Sustainability
Post-Industrial Retrenched Welfare'Bismarck-extended
model'
Liquid -Post-Modernist
`Supermarket-Welfare'
Misuraca, G., Pasi., G., and Kucsera, C., EC, JRC-IPTS, IESI, Work in Progress, 2016
Individualist / Do-It Yourself Distributed
Welfare'Beveridge-extended
model'
High Sustainability
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Partnerships, Outreach & Networking
Mapping ICT-enabled social policy innovation in EU – IESI
i-FRAME design & development
Future of welfare
IESI Mapping 2016 Social Media Reach – 06/2016
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Award 2016
In search of proven evidence of impact
http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/iesisurvey
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