Social innovation has an important role to play in achieving the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet, knowledge of how, where, and even if this occurs remains limited and scattered across disciplines. This Edward Elgar Companion aims to...

This report explores fintech innovation from the side of board directors and board of advisors, the level of understanding and preparedness, the skills and the key questions board directors and advisors need to be asking. The changing profile of directors and advisors in the fintech sector...

In recent years, there has been a growing realization that innovation policy is falling short of its potential to address the multiple global challenges that affect contemporary and future societies. Against this background, the chapter analyses the concept of innovation underlying the...

This chapter introduces a novel short course, Research-Based Innovation , designed to foster innovation among PhD students by leveraging their own research. The course is grounded in an experiential learning framework and incorporates active learning strategies to enhance engagement and...

This chapter summarizes the theoretical literature on innovation incentives provided by environmental policies, in particular emission taxes and tradable permits. It argues that, in general, price-based instruments are superior to command-and-control policies, and that, in particular, emissions...

Digital innovation is a burgeoning area of study which investigates how organisations and entrepreneurs leverage malleable digital resources to develop novel IT artefacts. However, despite the changing nature of systems development, our understanding of responsibility remains rooted in prior...

Menstrual poverty remains a critical yet under-addressed issue affecting millions of girls in low-resource settings, particularly in Africa. This study examines the role of social innovation in mitigating period poverty through the implementation of menstrual cups in rural Ghana. Conducted in...

External corporate venturing (ECV) through collaborations with startups provides corporations with additional strategic options compared to internal innovation initiatives and traditional corporate development approaches. By engaging with startups, companies can access emerging technologies more...

This chapter examines the experiences of Syrian Refugee Women Entrepreneurs (SRWE) in Jordan between 2019–2021 in ways that highlight the significant challenges and tensions faced across personal, family, and business domains. Using Paradox Theory, gender paradoxes experienced by SRWE are...

Enabled by new technologies, new players are entering the fintech sector through innovative business models (BMs). These fintech business models typically rely on blockchain. However, it is rare to find studies that explore how blockchain technology shapes the different components of the BM....