Involvement of the society in social innovation for providing sustainable development of Latvia

Project 5.2.7 "Involvement of the society in social innovation for providing sustainable development of Latvia" is conducted within the National Research Program “Economic Transformation, Smart Growth, Governance and Legal Framework for the State and Society for Sustainable Development ‒ a New Approach to the Creation of a Sustainable Learning Community (EKOSOC-LV)” (2014-2017).

Manager of the programme – academician of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, professor at Latvia University of Agriculture, Dr.habil.oec. Baiba Rivža.

Programme's homepage on the website of Latvian Academy of Sciences

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Information on the EKOSOC-LV programme on the website of the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Univesity of Latvia

Information on the EKOSOC-LV programme on the website of the Latvia University of Agriculture

Project's 5.2.7 leaders: Associate professor and senior researcher at the Faculty of Engineering Economics and Management of Riga Technical University, Dr.paed. Karine Oganisjana and professor at Riga Stradiņš University, Dr.oec. Inna Dovladbekova.

Project's webpage on the website of the Faculty of Engineering Economics and Management of Riga Technical University

Project's 5.2.7 goal: Elaboration of a model of social innovation for: promoting economic democracy; developing social and human capital; improving collaboration among state institutions, enterprises and the Latvian population in order to solve social problems and motivate to get self-organised and actively participate in social innovation processes strengthening society’s securitability and ensuring its sustainable development.

Project's 5.2.7 objectives:

to explore the present forms of social innovation and the performance indicators of social innovation processes in Latvia and Europe in order to create an appropriate platform for the elaboration of a contemporary model of social innovation in Latvia;
to investigate the interaction of economic democracy, human capital and social capital and their impact on topical issues of society concerning education, social involvement, processes of innovation, and development of public institutions in Latvia;
to research the factors which affect the involvement of the society in social innovation processes in Latvia and determine the prerequisites for ensuring social innovation both at individual and group level;
to elaborate a network model of collaboration of state institutions, enterprises and inhabitants for developing social innovation in Latvia;
to work out recommendations to state policy makers and company owners for providing the understanding of the issues connected with employee financial participation systems, social capital and social involvement for developing social innovation in Latvia;
to elaborate recommendations for the introduction of employee financial participation system at the methodology and method level, as well as to develop the theoretical concept of human capital and social capital interaction and conduct its approbation in Latvia;
to elaborate teaching and learning methodology and materials aimed at the development of social innovation, openness to novelty, interdisciplinary creative thinking and active involvement in the solution of social problems in Latvia.

The Project consists of two scopes of research concerning:

1) the interdisciplinary (economic, management and education) perspective of the development of social innovation processes in Latvia with the active involvement of different parties (state institutions, enterprises, NGOs and individuals); the research is led by Karine Oganisjana with the participation of researchers from Riga Technical University, Latvia University of Agriculture, University of Latvia and Riga Stradiņš University;

2) the employees’ financial participation systems, social capital and social involvement for developing social innovation in Latvia; the research is led by Inna Dovladbekova with the participation of researchers from Riga Stradiņš University and University of Latvia.

By the end of the project the findings of the two scopes of research will be integrated to make the holistic mechanism of promotion of social innovation in Latvia.

In the first scope of the research (led by K.Oganisjana), the following researchers were involved in stage 1 (01.10.2014. – 31.03.2015.) from Riga Technical University ‒ Dr. paed. Karine Oganisjana; Dr.oec. Jeļena Titko, Dr.oec. Konstantins Kozlovskis, Mg.oec. Tālis Laizans and doctoral student Iveta Ozola-Ozoliņa; from Latvia University of Agriculture ‒ Dr.oec. Gunta Grīnberga-Zālīte, Dr.oec. Lāsma Dobele and doctoral student Linda Kelle; from the University of Latvia – Dr. paed. Svetlana Surikova and from Riga Stradiņš University – Dr. habil. paed. Tatjana Koķe. The following researchers were involved in stage 2 (01.04.2015. – 31.12.2015.) from Riga Technical University ‒ Dr. paed. Karine Oganisjana; Dr.oec. Jeļena Titko, Dr.oec. Konstantins Kozlovskis, Mg.oec. Tālis Laizans, doctoral student Iveta Ozola-Ozoliņa and master student Mārtiņš Putenis; from Latvia University of Agriculture ‒ Dr.oec. Gunta Grīnberga-Zālīte, Dr.oec. Lāsma Dobele and doctoral student Linda Kelle; from the University of Latvia – Dr. paed. Svetlana Surikova and from Riga Stradiņš University – Dr. habil. paed. Tatjana Koķe, as wel as Agnese Irbe (Finehouse Ltd.)

In the second scope of the research (led by I.Dovladbekova) the following researchers were involved in stage 1 (01.10.2014. – 30.04.2015.) from Riga Stradiņš University ‒ Dr.oec. Inna Dovladbekova, Dr.oec. Anželika Berķe-Berga and from the University of Latvia ‒ Dr.oec. Ērika Šumilo, Dr.oec. Ilona Baumane-Vītoliņa, Dr.oec. Tatjana Muravska, Mg.oec. Ilze Vilka. The following researchers were involved in stage 2 (01.05.2015. – 31.12.2015.) from Riga Stradiņš University ‒ Dr.oec. Inna Dovladbekova, Dr.oec. Anželika Berķe-Berga, Dr.jur. Marta Ābula, Baiba Jakobsone and from the University of Latvia ‒ Dr.oec. Ērika Šumilo, Dr.oec. Tatjana Muravska, Mg.oec. Ilze Vilka.

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Reports on the project's 5.2.7 course and results in 2014-2017 (led by K.Oganisjana):

Report on 06.01.2015. (developed by K.Oganisjana)

Report on 17.01.2015. (developed by K.Oganisjana)

Report on 03.03.2015. (developed by K.Oganisjana)

Report on 20.05.2015. (developed by K.Oganisjana and S.Surikova)

Report on 30.06.2015. (developed by K.Oganisjana and S.Surikova)

Report on 15.10.2015. (developed by K.Oganisjana)

Report on 15.10.2015. (developed by K.Oganisjana un N.Lāce)

Report on 19.01.2016. (developed by K.Oganisjana)

Report on 26.02.2016. (developed by K.Oganisjana)

Report on 26.02.2016. (developed by N.Monge)

Report on 01.06.2016. (developed by K.Oganisjana)

Report on 30.09.2016. (developed by N.Monge)

Report no 30.09.2016. (developed by K.Oganisjana)

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Reports on the sub-project's 5.2.7.4 course and results in 2014-2015 (led by S.Surikova):

Report on 17.01.2015. (developed by S.Surikova)

Report on 22.05.2015. (developed by S.Surikova)

Report on 15.10.2015. (developed by S.Surikova)

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Publications:

	Oganisjana, K., Svirina, A., Surikova, S., Grīnberga-Zālīte, G. & Kozlovskis, K. (2017). Engaging universities in social innovation research for understanding sustainability issues. Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 5(1), 9-22. doi.org/10.9770/jesi.2017.5.1(1) ISSN 2345-0282 (online). The Volume online The Volume pdf Full paper pdf
	Dobele, Lasma (2016). A New Approach in Higher Education: Social Entrepreneurship Education. In: Management, Enterprise and Benchmarking in the 21st Century III, Hungary, Budapest, Obuda University (pp. 227-238). ISBN 978-615-5460-77-7. Full text (pdf version)
	Dobele, Lasma; Grinberga-Zalite, Gunta (2016). Opportunities of integrating social awareness in higher education to enhance the development of social innovation in Latvia. In: 16th International multidisciplinary scientific GeoConference SGEM- 2016: conference proceedings. Albena, Bulgaria, 30 June - 6 July, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Albena, 2016. Book 5: Ecology, Economics, Education and Legislation, Vol. 3: Environmental economics. Education and accreditation in geosciences (pp. 915-922). ISBN 9786197105674. ISSN 1314-2704. The proceedings
	Grinberga-Zalite, Gunta; Licagina, Ginta; Oganisjana, Karine; Surikova, Svetlana (2016). Engagement of the population of Jurmala city in promoting the sustainable development of the resort. IN: Anita Auzina (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference “Economic Science for Rural Development”, 21-22 April 2016, No.43, New Dimensions in the Development of Society, Marketing and Sustainable Consumption, Finance and Taxes (pp. 143-150). Jelgava: LLU ESAF. ISSN 1691-3078; ISSN 2255-9930 (on line); ISBN 978-9984-48-255-5 Online version
	Oganisjana, Karine; Surikova, Svetlana; Grīnberga-Zālīte, Gunta (2016). Sociālās inovācijas izpēte starpdisciplinārā skatījumā. Latvijas Zinātņu Akadēmijas Vēstis. A daļa, Sociālās un humanitārās zinātnes. Valsts pētījumu programmas EKOSOC-LV rezultātu apkopojums. 70. sējums, 3. numurs, 68.-76.lpp. ISSN 1407-0081
	Svirina, Anna; Zabbarova Alfia; Oganisjana, Karine (2016). Implementing open innovation concept in social business. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 2016, 2:20 (Published on 12 October 2016). Full text (e-version) Full text (pdf version)
	Oganisjana, Karine; Surikova, Svetlana; Laizāns, Tālis (2015). Factors influencing social innovation processes in Latvia, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues 3(2): 186-197. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.9770/jesi.2015.3.2(6) Volume (pdf) Paper (pdf)

Oganisjana, Karine; Surikova, Svetlana (2015). Social innovation in the promotion of sustainable development of the contemporary Latvian society. Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues, 5(2), 249–258. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.9770/jssi.2015.5.2(10) ISSN 2029-7017 (print); ISSN 2029-7025 (online)

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Dobele, Lasma; Grinberga-Zalite, Gunta; Kelle, Linda (2015). Sustainable economic development: scenarios for promotion of social innovation in Latvia. Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues, 5(2), 149–158. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.9770/jssi.2015.5.2(2) ISSN 2029-7017 (print); ISSN 2029-7025 (online)

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Oganisjana, Karine (2015). Promotion of university students’ collaborative skills in open innovation environment. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 2015, 1:18 (Published online 1 December 2015).

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	Titko, Jelena; Surikova, Svetlana (2015). Exploring the concept of social innovation. In Iveta Simberova and Alena Kocmanova (Eds.), Perspectives of Business and Entrepreneurship Development. Economic, Management, Finance and System Engineering from the Academic and Practitioners Views. Proceeding of selected papers (pp. 338-347). 15th International Conference at Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Business and Management, May 28-29, 2015, Brno, Czech Republic. ISBN 978-80-214-5227-5 PDF version
	Grinberga-Zalite, Gunta; Oganisjana, Karine; Surikova, Svetlana (2015). The study of social innovation theoretical framework for enhahcing of rural development and agriculture in Latvia. In Janis Kusis et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference "Economic Science for Rural Development", 23-24 April 2015, No. 40, Marketing and Sustainable Consumption. New Dimensions in the Development of Society (pp. 205-215). Jelgava: LLU ESAF. PDF version
	Dobele, Lasma (2015). Factors which influence the development of social innovation in Latvia. In Janis Kusis et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference "Economic Science for Rural Development", 23-24 April 2015, No. 40, Marketing and Sustainable Consumption. New Dimensions in the Development of Society (pp. 226-238). Jelgava: LLU ESAF. PDF version
	Surikova, Svetlana; Oganisjana, Karine; Grinberga-Zalite, Gunta (2015). The role of education in promoting social innovation processes in the society. In Velta Lubkina and Svetlana Usca (Eds.), SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference, May 22nd-23rd, 2015, Volume IV (pp. 233-243). Rēzekne: Rēzeknes Augstskola. Print paper format: ISSN 1691-5887; ISBN 978-9984-44-164-1 CD format: ISSN 2256-0637; ISBN 978-9984-44-165-8 Electronic format: Volume IV Abstract Full paper (pdf), 11 p.

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