TY  - BOOK
AU  - Poonamallee,Latha
AU  - Scillitoe,Joanne
AU  - Joy,Simy
TI  -  Socio-tech innovation : : harnessing technology for social good 
SN  - 9783030395544 (pbk.)
U1  - 650 SOC 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cham, Switzerland
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan, 
KW  - Business & management
KW  - Social entrepreneurship
KW  - Business & Economics Management
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Entrepreneurship
N2  - This book defines socio-technological innovation and lays out different aspects of technology innovation and adoption literature as applied to socio-tech innovation and entrepreneurship. Socio-tech innovation refers to novel solutions that involve development or adoption of technological innovations to address social and/or environmental problems with a view towards creating benefit for the larger whole rather than just for the owners or investors. Unlike conventional technological innovation, socio-tech innovation either develops a product specifically for underserved markets and adopts a model in which the market is not an afterthought but the rai-son detre. Social ventures have not been as successful in scaling up, though technology innovation-led ventures have; therefore, meaningful actionable insights that can help social ventures scale up successfully can be gleaned by this process. This book offers researchers in innovation and entrepreneurship programs a unique and interdisciplinary approach to studying social innovation that is grounded in technology innovation. This book features a series of socio-tech venture cases that illustrate these dynamics and can be used in undergraduate and graduate courses. Latha Poonamallee is Associate Professor and Chair of Management & Social Innovation at The New School, USA. Joanne Scillitoe is the inaugural Paul Jennings Chair in Entrepreneurship and a Professor of Management at California State, Northridge, USA. Simy Joy is a Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, India
ER  -