Innovazione per la sostenibilità: un’esperienza di co-design per il welfare comunitario

Complex social needs, as the ones tackled by social innovation, are increasingly demonstrating to require integrated and innovative approaches and multi-stakeholder strategies, able to combine and manage the contributions of different actors, included those considered non-conventional. In this context, the private sector in particular is called upon to acquire an active role through a stronger recognition of its potential and by sharing all its resources – not only economic ones. But even most importantly, firms are demanded to act and think of themselves and the territory in an integrated logic, innovating thus their business model and allowing therefore the realization of systemic innovations. The on-going Italian project on communitarian and cross-sectorial welfare here presented aims to demonstrate that multi-stakeholder approaches with the support of co-creation methodologies and codesign tools can lead to an effective integration of innovation in the productive system of firms, therefore providing the new processes established with a more structural and wide-ranging dimension