SHINE 2Europe, 3030-163 Coimbra, Portugal.
AFEdemy-Academy on Age-Friendly Environments in Europe, 2806 ED Gouda, The Netherlands.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Dec 22;20(1):118. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20010118.
There have been several initiatives aiming to promote innovation and support stakeholders to increase investments in relevant societal areas connected to Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments-SHAFE. However, their impact usually runs shorter than desirable in the mid- and long-term due to the difficulty to identify, map, and connect stakeholders in the different European and world countries that are willing to work for the practical implementation of social innovation around SHAFE. This mapping and connection can contribute to increase awareness of innovation actors on social innovation concepts and, if well disseminated, may also leverage the creation of alliances and synergies between different stakeholders within ecosystems and between ecosystems. Understanding what relevant practices exist, how they are funded, and how they involve citizens and organisations is also key to ensure that business actors have access to social innovation and entrepreneurial knowledge, which is key for future sustainable societal change. The present study developed and implemented a survey replied by 61 organisations from 28 different countries. The results showed relevant inputs regarding different cultural and societal perceptions, including diverse end-user organisations, and will, thus, facilitate multistakeholder engagement, public awareness, and the overall upscaling of social innovation on SHAFE.
已经有一些旨在促进创新和支持利益相关者增加对与智能健康友好环境（SHAFE）相关的社会领域投资的举措。然而，由于难以识别、映射和连接愿意为 SHAFE 周围的社会创新的实际实施而努力的不同欧洲和世界国家的利益相关者，这些举措的影响通常在中长期内不如理想。这种映射和连接有助于提高创新者对社会创新概念的认识，如果得到很好的传播，也可能在生态系统内和生态系统之间的不同利益相关者之间建立联盟和协同作用。了解哪些相关实践存在、它们是如何获得资金的以及它们如何涉及公民和组织，也是确保商业参与者能够获得社会创新和创业知识的关键，这是未来可持续社会变革的关键。本研究开发并实施了一项调查，有来自 28 个不同国家的 61 个组织作出回应。结果显示了不同文化和社会观念的相关投入，包括不同的最终用户组织，因此，将促进多方利益相关者的参与、公众意识以及 SHAFE 上社会创新的整体扩大。
