Title: Social Innovation: A Sympathetic and Critical Interpretation
Abstract: The first chapter of the book, by Taco Brandsen, Adalbert Evers, Sandro Cattacin and Annette Zimmer, describes the basic assumptions, aims and methodology of the project from which the empirical evidence is drawn. It emphasises the importance of analysing social innovation in context and of avoiding uncritical interpretations of social innovation as inherently good. The chapter ends with an overview of the other chapters.