Originality/value The paper contributes to the development of social innovation research by boosting and encouraging further investigation on how different sets of ideas underpin social innovation dis

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• A research agenda for social entrepreneurship (2005) · doi

  Originality/value Facilitates research into social entrepreneurship in the UK by overcoming the handicaps caused by the lack of standard and universally acceptable definitions of social enterprise, social entrepreneur and social entrepreneurship as well as the absence of a national register of social enterprises.

  Keywords: social entrepreneurship originality value facilitates overcoming handicaps caused lack standard universally acceptable definitions enterprise entrepreneur
• Social innovation: relationships with social and human capitals, entrepreneurial competencies and growth of social enterprises in a developing country context (2022) · doi

  Originality/value This study fills the research gap, from the theoretical perspective, by identifying capital and competency variables as well as their additional determinants that are divergent from previous literature, which can potentially influence the social innovation development of social enterprises, and where only limited research is evidenced.

  Keywords: social originality value fills theoretical perspective identifying capital competency variables well additional determinants divergent previous
• Radical futures? Exploring the policy relevance of social innovation (2021) · doi

  Originality/value The paper contributes to the development of social innovation research by boosting and encouraging further investigation on how different sets of ideas underpin social innovation discourse and its use as a policy concept.

  Keywords: social innovation originality value contributes development boosting encouraging further investigation different sets ideas underpin discourse