Session: Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship SIG (Society for Social Work and Research 24th Annual Conference - Reducing Racial and Economic Inequality)

This Special Interest Group (SIG) focuses on promoting and supporting research on social innovation, the process of responding to and harnessing new developments in technology, education, design, and evidence-based practice, through social means and for social ends. This SIG also focuses on promoting and supporting research on social entrepreneurship, which develops a new firm or business to capture the social gains of a social innovation for that firm’s stakeholders. For social work, social innovation emerges out of the evidence-informed practice process, as the field dynamically experiments to discover and scale promising practices and interventions successfully.