THE FORMATION OF THE SOCIAL AND INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT PATHWAY IN DESIGNING THE INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT FOR PUBLIC GOODS
The purpose of this article is to assess the possibilities and the need to form a social and innovative development in designing the institutional environment for public goods. The principles of designing the institutional environment for public goods are described and the stages of designing and implementing social innovations in the public goods sector are highlighted. The analysis of the relationship of the principles of institutional design with the stages of social innovation is carried out; a procedure for designing and implementing the institutional project in the institutional environment for public goods is developed. Based on the analysis of approaches determining the properties of social innovations, the author’s interpretation of the concept of social innovation is presented, and the properties of social innovations and their applicability in the public goods sector are highlighted. The necessity of taking into account social and economic factors in the process of designing social and innovative projects in the public goods sector is substantiated. Based on the theoretical review, key social and economic factors are identified and described, reflecting the state of the institutional environment for public goods and having a tendency to be modified in the process of introducing new social projects. The theoretical results of this study can be applied in the practice of designing institutions to support social innovation in the public goods sector.
Keywords: public goods sector, institutional environment of public goods, social innovations, institutions supporting social innovations.
Highlights:
the interrelation of the principles of the institutional design of public goods and social innovations is revealed, the need for the development of a social-innovative direction in the social sector is determined;
the stages of designing social innovations and their correlation with the principles of the institutional design are given.
the duality in determining the role of social and economic factors in the design of social innovations is revealed.
Eugenia A. Sevastyanova, a post-graduate student, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg.