Social Innovation : Knowledge to Society for Sustainable Development

Abstract

     This  article  aimed  to  present  the  meaning  of  social  innovation, differences  of  social  innovation  and  business  innovation, approaching  knowledge  to  attribute  social  innovation  and  sustainable  development. Social  innovation  defined as opinion  process, policy  and  guideline  to  emphasis  the  processes  of  social  capacity  development  of  organization,  individuality, and also  the  government  for  sustainability  of  social, economy, and  environment  leading to  quality of life in community  and  society. Social innovation was usually adopted for nonprofit purposes, while business innovation was.

     Approaching  to  attribute  social  innovation  consisted  of  three  ways: 1) innovative  imitation; 2)  re-production, re-experiment,  and  re-use  until  organization  acceptance  or  results of  studies  and  development; and 3) interdisciplinary approaching  to produce social innovation. There were four steps of social innovation; design predication and development; maintenance; distribution and linking; and innovative systematically attribution. Moreover, use of social innovation should give importance to strengthen the social development organization resulting in   innovation  which would be suitable with situation  and  social  problems  at  present  time.