Social Innovations and Community Engagement: A Proposed Model of Mobile Learning Applications

Running head: SOCIAL INNOVATIONS
Social Innovations
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Executive Summary:
The social innovation is observed to have a significant effect on the community engagement
and in the growth of the community. The paper here discusses the conceptual meaning of the
social innovation and along with that the paper also discusses how the community
engagement theories get influenced by the social innovation. The paper describes one
example of the social innovation and how it affects the society. The paper also analyses the
market condition for the implementation of the social innovation example and evaluates the
challenges in the implementation of the new proposed concept.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................3
Social Innovation and the Community Engagement:.................................................................3
Proposed Model of Social Innovation:.......................................................................................4
Situational Analysis:..................................................................................................................5
Strength:.................................................................................................................................5
Weakness:..............................................................................................................................6
Opportunities:.........................................................................................................................6
Threats:...................................................................................................................................6
Political/Legal:.......................................................................................................................7
Economic:..............................................................................................................................7
Social:.....................................................................................................................................8
Technological:........................................................................................................................8
Environmental:.......................................................................................................................8
Overview and Challenges in Implementation:...........................................................................8
Challenges:.............................................................................................................................9
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................9
References:...............................................................................................................................11

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Introduction:
The concept of the social innovation generates from the interest of meeting the social
needs that is generated from the community development, health or education. The social
innovations are generally the new ideas, concepts and strategies that are for the betterment of
the society (Cajaiba-Santana 2014).According to Moulaert (2016), the general objective of
the social innovation is to unite the society and increase the strength of the society. The
objective of the paper is to focus on the shape of the innovation and how the innovation will
influence the society with precise focus on the organization Pure learning. The purpose of the
paper is to evaluate the impact of the social innovation on the growth of the community and
the engagement of the community. The paper will also discuss about a proposed example of
the social innovation and the impact of the example in the society. Along with that the paper
will also analyse the example by the analytical tools like SWOT and PESEL and will discuss
the challenges in the implementation as well.
Social Innovation and the Community Engagement:
As mentioned above the social innovation will generally focus on contributing the
society. According to the study of Moulaert, MacCallum and Hillier (2013), the impact of the
social innovation will be highly influential for the society as the contribution that the new
idea or the strategy is making, will be immense for the people of the society. Manzini (2014)
claimed that the general social innovations will have a structure of deploying unique
solutions to the emerging social and environmental issues of the current generation and in
doing so it will develop the society in a unique way. It is also believed that the social
innovation focuses the attention on the strategies or the ideas that are observed to produce the
social values (Osburg 2013). Along with the concept of social innovation, the drivers for the
social innovation can also be described as exchanging the ideas and the values, the shifting in