With the resonance analysis, IndiSI is breaking new ground in developing indicators for measuring social innovations and addressing the gap in established foresight methods in this area. It looks at the early phases of the development processes of social innovations, at the beginning of which is the identification and perception of social needs. The relevance of social needs in a specific context, and the extent to which modified practices serve to address them, is not only dependent on objective parameters, but is collectively negotiated in social discourses and socially constructed.

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