Enabling social innovation assemblages: Strengthening public sector involvement

Joanne McNeill

Public sector interest in social innovation is rapidly growing around the world. However, only recently has substantial empirical research emerged to support practice. Through combining Community Economies research methods with emerging new public governance literature, this thesis makes a unique contribution to the field. A language politics is developed, based on two experimental conceptual frameworks. Using these, social innovation assemblages are explored, with a particular focus on social procurement relationships. Openings for performing new kinds of economy are established, offering a counter to ‘fast policy’ approaches and contributing to decentring prevailing discourses of intractable ‘wicked problems’.

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McNeill, J. 2017. Enabling social innovation assemblages: Strengthening public sector involvement. (Unpublished Doctoral Thesis). Western Sydney University, Australia