Journal of University Studies

Journal of University Studies

Explanation and application of social innovation in the country with emphasis on academic discourse

Document Type : Original Research Paper

Author
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Studies, Institute of Cultural and Social Studies, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Innovation in its purpose, effect or method is closely related to social conditions, in which, it is produced. Nevertheless, I believe that innovations possess both form and content, with the first being made of intellect and logic (instrumental and communicative that includes economic, political and socio-cultural relations) and the second utmost being based on morality (intentionality, equality and justice). It is the form that leads to innovation in the shape of moral content. The form of all innovations is somehow similar and as we said, it includes economic, political and socio-cultural relations i.e. if relations are aligned with the intention of equality, we come across economic innovation. This is the condition where economic gaps and discriminations grow in the form of production and employment (in other words, welfare). But when relations are aligned with the intention of freedom, we face technological innovation, the conditions for controlling and managing the violence of nature towards us, in other words, freedom from the shackles of nature (cold, heat, floods, storms and exploitation of its resources). But when relations are aligned with the intention of justice, we face social innovation, a condition where social gaps and discriminations grow in the form of education, empowerment, security and stability of life (liberation from the poverty trap). Social innovation, as a new and interdisciplinary concept that is less than a decade old, has been able to attract the attention of politicians and statesmen to academics. Despite the different and sometimes contradictory formulations, its ideal goal is to reduce the existing gaps regardless of different discourses. The most important goal of this article is to build the concept of social innovation and then to explain it in the form of three existing discourses (government, entrepreneurship and academic) and finally the academic one (with the point that university in our country only the possibility of creating and reproducing education and finally innovation and the way out of the existing conditions) in the "narrative of existing events" method. Based on this, while categorizing educational and research centers in the country, we explained and drew them in eighteen different forms.
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Volume 1, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
Summer 2023
Summer 2023
Pages 69-98

  • Receive Date 12 October 2022
  • Revise Date 08 February 2023
  • Accept Date 24 April 2023