Stanislav Aizin

I am a professional researcher, social theorist, consultant in the field of sociology and social innovation, author of the book “Social Innovation — Global Experience: 10 Nations turning the tide of societal development”. My education includes Master of Law & Jurisprudence.

The book “Social Innovation — Global Experience”

The book “Social Innovation — Global Experience” was written to collect outstanding precedents of complex state-level reforms, analyzing solutions that facilitate or hinder their implementation. Concluding chapter provides recommendations on the process of introduction and implementation of social innovations.

The author seeks to answer the following questions:

• What are these reforms leading to and how are they being implemented?
• What errors occur?
• What strong solutions were applied?
• Can some reforms be transferred from one country to another?
• Is the experience of reform implementation unique to each country?

The book contains examples of social innovation from ten countries: Singapore, China, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Russia, Canada, Norway, USA, Iceland, and Portugal.

Each of the chapters is dedicated to a specific country and structured as follows:

1. Historical background. In what conditions did social innovations arise and how were they introduced?
2. Formulation of objectives. What kind of goal each government wanted to achieve?
3. Solutions “+” and solutions “-”. State-level errors and effective steps that may be useful for other countries to adopt.
4. Conclusions and recommendations.