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Contents
Part 1 Introduction
1 Social Innovation: A Sympathetic and Critical Interpretation ... 3 Taco Brandsen, Adalbert Evers, Sandro Cattacin and Annette Zimmer
Part II Urban Contexts for Local Innovations
2 Urban Governance and Social Innovations ... 21 Sandro Cattacin and Annette Zimmer
3 Everybody on Board? Opportunity Structures for Social
Innovations in Münster ... 45 Christina Rentzsch
4 Inertia, Clearings, and Innovations in Malmö ... 65 Ola Segnestam Larsson, Marie Nordfeldt and Anna Carrigan
5 Birmingham, Priority to Economics, Social Innovation
at the Margins ... 83 Nadia Brookes, Jeremy Kendall and Lavinia Mitton
6 Social Policies and Governance in Geneva: What About
Social Innovation? ... 97 Patricia Naegeli
7 Milan: A City Lost in the Transition from the Growth
Machine Paradigm Towards a Social Innovation Approach ... 125 Giuliana Costa, Roberta Cucca and Rossana Torri
8 Poor but Sexy? Berlin as a Context for Social Innovation ... 143 Benjamin Ewert
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Part III Local Social Innovations
9 Social Innovations as Messages: Democratic
Experimentation in Local Welfare Systems ... 161 Adalbert Evers and Taco Brandsen
10 Warsaw: Paving New Ways for Participation of Mothers, Fathers, and Children in Local Public and Social Life—
The MaMa Foundation ... 181 Renata Siemieńska, Anna Domaradzka and Ilona Matysiak
11 Zagreb: Parents in Action—Innovative Ways of Support
and Policies for Children, Women and Families ... 189 Gojko Bežovan, Jelena Matančević and Danijel Baturina
12 Amsterdam: Neighbourhood Stores for Education, Research,
and Talent Development—The BOOT Project ... 199 Francesca Broersma, Taco Brandsen and Joost Fledderus
13 Lille Metropolis: Co-production of Housing
in a Major Urban Renewal District ... 205 Laurent Fraisse
14 Pamplona: Neighbourhood Children Services—
A Grassroots and Local Council Initiative ... 213 Manuel Aguilar Hendrickson and Marta Llobet Estany
15 Berlin: Kreuzberg Acts—Entrepreneurship in the District ... 219 Benjamin Ewert and Adalbert Evers
16 Milan: “We Help You to Help Yourself”—
The Project of the Fondazione Welfare Ambrosiano ... 227 Stefania Sabatinelli and Giuliana Costa
17 Stockholm: Innovative Ways of Supporting Children
of Single (Lone) Mothers ... 235 Marie Nordfeldt, Ola Segnestam Larsson and Anna Carrigan
18 Nijmegen: Work Corporations—for the Unemployed,
by the Unemployed ... 243 Joost Fledderus, Taco Brandsen and Francesca Broersma
19 Birmingham: The Youth Employment and Enterprise
Rehearsal Project ... 251 Nadia Brookes, Jeremy Kendall and Lavinia Mitton
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20 Birmingham: A “Locality Approach”
to Combating Worklessness ... 257 Nadia Brookes, Jeremy Kendall and Lavinia Mitton
21 Münster: How Prevention Visits Improve
Local Child Protection ... 265 Andrea Walter and Danielle Gluns
22 Barcelona: A Citizen’s Agreement for an Inclusive City ... 273 Teresa Montagut, Gemma Vilà and Sebastià Riutort
23 Bern: Integration Guidelines ... 281 Maxime Felder
Part IV Conclusions
24 The Implicit Normative Assumptions of Social Innovation
Research: Embracing the Dark Side ... 293 Ola Segnestam Larsson and Taco Brandsen
25 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Social Innovation ... 303 Taco Brandsen, Adalbert Evers, Sandro Cattacin and Annette Zimmer
Index ... 311
