Rio de Janeiro´s Social Crossroads Innovations and Sustainable Development
Poverty, inequality, lacking access to rights are all a reality in the chabolas and suburbia areas in Brazil, and they all directly affect the quality of life in these territories where, in spite of the situation, smaller initiatives for a more sustainable future do exist. This investigation discuss...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Ecuador |
| Institución: | Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar |
| Repositorio: | Revista Estudios de la Gestión |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.uasb.edu.ec:article/3836 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/eg/article/view/3836 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | encrucijadas sociales de innovación innovación social emprendedurismo social virador emprendimiento brasileño social crossroads of innovation social innovation social entrepreneurship Brazilian-fashioned entrepreneurship inovação de encruzilhada inovação social empreendedorismo social empreendedorismo a brasileira |
| Sumario: | Poverty, inequality, lacking access to rights are all a reality in the chabolas and suburbia areas in Brazil, and they all directly affect the quality of life in these territories where, in spite of the situation, smaller initiatives for a more sustainable future do exist. This investigation discusses what we call ‘social crossroads of innovation’ (Rufino 2019), which are interventions that take place in the tears of the system and which work as a manner of transgression/objection by established institutions. These are led by a social entrepreneur who works “in a Brazilian fashion”— also known as virador (Souza Neto 2003) —whose objection can be identified by looking at their new manners to make, know, frame and organize everything (Haxeltine et al. 2016) as presented in 3 cases: Barkus, a social company for financial education for both youth and adults; G10, a network of the 10 chabolas with the most purchasing power in Brazil; and Olabi, a space for technology democratization for social transformation. With these as starting point, we have identified 7 lessons on the key characteristics of this type of social innovation. To conclude, we argue that social crossroads of innovation in Brasil are engines for social transformation which help pave the way for alternate future models focused on sustainable development at the local level, as well as quality of life improvements for vulnerable populations. |
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