SIC Launch Event: The state of the union

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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%

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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

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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

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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 assistance (0.23)


Co-occurrences


Employability (0.44)

Social care (0.45)

Civic engagement (0.26)


Employment (0.45)

Social care (0.29)

Employment (0.17)




Childcare (0.25)

Primary PSSGI Employment Social inclusion/participation

Civic engagement Independent living Integrated care Prevention, health promotion and rehabilitation

Main Co-occurrence




Prevention, health promotion and rehabilitation (0.51)

Independent living (0.68)

Independent living (0.42)

Co-occurrences


Civic engagement (0.27)


Integrated care (0.42)

Prevention, health promotion and rehabilitation (0.54)

Integrated care (0.31)



Social care (0.09)


Social care (0.36)



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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