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    A Journey into Social Innovation Incubation. The TRANSITION Project.

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    The paper discusses the emerging issues and challenges of using service and strategic design approaches to support social innovation. Reflecting on the on-going European project TRANSITION (Transnational Network for Social Innovation Incubation) and in particular on its implementation in Milan, the paper proposes an action format conceived as a journey into social innovation incubation. Named the Social Innovation Journey, it aims at systemizing the different stages of development of an innovation together with the support activities delivered. In conclusion, on the basis of the journey undertaken with and for a first group of social innovators, some considerations are made on the nature of the initiatives incubated and the role of service design in developing the process set in place to scale them out and up

    Design for Incubating and Scaling Innovation

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    Design is a fast changing discipline that is highly responsive to societal, market and economic transformations. Design itself is today acknowledged as a driver for transformation: with a particular reference to service design, scenario design and all participatory design practices, design is actually considered a discipline with a transformational role because of its capacity for systemic thinking, sense making and capacity building. As such, it deals with issues of organisational change, new economies, sustainability, social change and also with setting up or scaling innovations by “empowering people” to invent solutions together. Incubating or scaling innovations is therefore something that has to do with the above-mentioned three main capacities of systemic thinking, sense making and capacity building
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