A community engagement focused social innovation concept for Refugee Cleaning Service in Brisbane

Running head: A community engagement focused social innovation concept for Refugee
Cleaning Service in Brisbane
A community engagement focused social innovation concept for Refugee Cleaning Service in
Brisbane
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A community engagement focused social innovation concept for Refugee Cleaning Service in
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................2
Discussion of social innovation and community engagement theory.............................................2
Description of your proposed social innovation..............................................................................4
Discussion of the financial, environmental and ethical implications of your social innovation and
how your social innovation contributes to the common good.........................................................5
Discuss a significant implementation challenge..............................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

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A community engagement focused social innovation concept for Refugee Cleaning Service in
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Executive Summary
The purpose of the study is to give a social innovation concept which is based on
community engagement. For the purpose of social innovation concept the paper has chosen
Refugee Cleaning Service in Brisbane as to develop an idea of establishing the cleaning service
in Brisbane that is owned, run as well as staffed by the refugees from Iran and Syria. The study
begins by giving an overview of the theory of social innovation and community engagement
since the report is based on the two topics. In this section the study defines the two theories while
discussion how the two theories are dependable on each other. The major part of the study gives
the description of the proposed social innovation concept. The study gives special attention on
the financial, environmental and ethical implications of the proposed social innovation concept
and then proceeds further discussing how the proposed concept generates contribution to the
common good. The study then identifies and discusses the possible challenges while
implementing the social innovation concept. Finally the paper concludes by summing up the
entire discussion.
Discussion of social innovation and community engagement theory
As per Moulaert (2013), the term social innovation refers to new strategies, concepts and
ideas along with organization which intend to fulfill social requirement. The new ideas or
strategies in the name of innovation are developed in an attempt to strengthen the civic society.
The theory of social innovations includes several aspects like open source methods and
techniques through which are well-known as social process of innovation. Cajaiba-Santana
(2014) suggests that the main aim of social innovation refers to the innovations which have some

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social purpose to fulfill such as community development. The innovators of social innovations
include the names of Muhammad Yunus who founded Grammeen Bank pioneering the notion of
microcredit so that support can be provided to the innovators in more than one developing
country like Asia, Africa, and Latin America (Moulaert, MacCallumc and Hillier 2013). Since
social innovation fulfills social purpose there remains confusion between social innovation and
social work. Hence, it needs to be clarified what distinguishes social innovations from social
work. Unlike social work which refers to some activities that aim to the betterment of society,
social innovation emphasizes on the process of innovation as to how the innovations or change
happen. According to Grimm et al. (2013), the term also alludes to the new idea or new way of
corporation which work towards achieving of sustainable society. The whole idea of social
innovation is generally diffused through particular organization. Even though the concept is
diffused by organizations, the aim of social innovation does not focus on generating profiting.
Meanwhile, Phillips et al. (2015) states that as per the Bureau of European Policy
Advisors, the concept of social innovation is socially oriented. Hence, social innovation alludes
to the ability of addressing the social requirements which could not be fulfilled by the traditional
policies. However, there are two other characterizations of social innovations. A range of social
innovations aim to improve a group of individuals and the other characterization of social
innovation focuses on the willingness to change social relations. Often social innovations are
considered as the way of increasing the quality of service that are offered with a social purpose,
Moreover, social innovations are the result of mental creativity which has a purpose of meeting
the social need.
On the other hand, as per O'Mara-Eves et al.(2013), the theory of community
management has been interpreted by several ways. However, the most considered theory of