TY - JOUR ID - 80071 TI - The Determination of Social Needs as Drivers of Social Innovation JO - Management Studies and Economic Systems JA - MSES LA - en SN - 2408-9583 AU - Luciell Van Rheede, Nicole AU - Saheed Bayat, Mohamed AD - Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa AD - Department of Public Administration, University of Fort –Hare, Eastern Cape, South Africa Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 4 IS - 1 SP - 29 EP - 40 KW - social innovation KW - Social entrepreneurship KW - Social Needs KW - People-centered development KW - Development theory KW - Need identification KW - Social value KW - Social conditions DO - N2 - Social innovation has been contextualized as a new way of resolving deeply entrenched development issues. The identification and resolution of social needs is said to be the driving force of social innovation. With features such as sustainability and scalability, social innovation has the potential to change the way we perceive and engage with development in the future. This research takes a critical look at how the social needs as a means to an end of social innovation, is identified. Previous research did not investigate the methodology of how these needs were identified and the question then arose as to how responsive the corresponding resolutions could be in resolving the need. UR - https://www.msaes.org/article_80071.html L1 - https://www.msaes.org/article_80071_78d20feb3296bcc4d50656241c2c1942.pdf ER -