Date of Publication :29th December 2022

Abstract: Social innovation is a concept that comprises the creation of innovative, sustainable solutions to instant social problems. Algeria is one of the country’s suffering from the increase in social problems, namely poverty, injustice, vulnerability, fragility, underemployment, unemployment, social exclusion, etc. It should be noted that such social phenomena weigh heavily on its economy and their absorption remains difficult, hence the need to seek new alternatives to fill its needs. In this sense , social innovation is seen as a sustainable solution. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the concept of social innovation and investigate the contributions of social innovation to address the unmet social needs of disadvantaged individuals then to socio-economic development of the country. This research aims to identify the internal and external factors which contribute to the spread of social innovations. We explore this question through a survey whose methodology adopted is qualitative. It is based on a longitudinal participant observation from three different projects. We collected primary and secondary data Through semi-structured interviews (documentary analysis, follow-up questions), that we analyzed according to a thematic method.

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