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What is Societal Challenges

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Global Campaigning Initiatives for Socio-Economic Development
Are opportunities due the social and economic opportunities created and justified the needs to promote public policies that encourage social innovation.
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Social Innovation as a Promoter of the Welfare: The Case of One Dollar Glasses in Brazil
Luísa Cagica Carvalho (Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal & Universidade de Évora, Portugal) and Adriana Backx Noronha Viana (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7937-3.ch001
Abstract
Although there is already much literature on innovation, the term social innovation is still relatively recent and underexplored. Social innovation refers to ideas, actions, and new or improved knowledge with the goal of overcoming the social needs in several areas of cooperation and participation. This influences the improvement of welfare, mainly through some regional projects that diagnose high priority needs of the most vulnerable population. This chapter aims to discuss the influence of social innovation in the improvement of daily life and presents a case study of the project one dollar glasses in Brazil. This project was developed initially by the German researcher Martin Aufmuth, who designed the production of resistant glasses with a lower cost. Renovatio in Brazil delivers about 12,000 glasses and covers a gap of ophthalmologists (85% of municipalities in Brazil don't have this specialty) and the access to this fundamental product.
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