Carbon Neutral District Project for Regenerating a Suburban Area within the Reinventing Cities C40 Framework by Lavinia Chiara Tagliabue, Jacopo Muzio Treccani, Antonio Della Bella

“…A multidisciplinary approach to urban regeneration is crucial when the project of suburban areas provides a functional program that includes the combination of technological, environmental, and social innovation. The Reinventing Cities C40 design contest represents an opportunity for designers to deal with the crossing topics of innovation, sustainability, and circular economy. …”
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Empowerment and Engagement in small enterprises – the case of the Tuscan Wine Hub / Responsabilizzazione e coinvolgimento nelle piccole imprese - il caso del Wine Hub della Toscana... by Cristina Santini, Gigliola Paviotti, Concetta Ferrara, Sabrina Tomasi, Chiara Aleffi, Maria Pia Maraghini, Alessio Cavicchi

“…Moving from the diffusion of hubs in the last decade and the potential role they can play in fostering community empowerment and developing social innovation, this paper describes steps, activities and implications related to the setting up of the Tuscan Wine Hub, within the European project The Wine Lab. …”
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Biomass-Based Renewable Energy Community: Economic Analysis of a Real Case Study by Francesca Ceglia, Elisa Marrasso, Carlo Roselli, Maurizio Sasso, Guido Coletta, Luigi Pellegrino

“…Renewable energy communities are catalysts of social innovation, the citizens’ engagement in energy actions, and the exploitation of local resources. …”
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The dynamics of circular migration in Southern Europe by Marañón-Abreu, Rafael

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Knowledge representation and reasoning methods in the concept development of product design : a state-of-the-art review by Wang, Zuoxu, Zheng, Pai, Lee, Ching-Hung, Chen, Chun-Hsien

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Promoting empathy using design thinking in project based learning and as a classroom culture / Adila Md Hashim, Sharipah Ruzaina Syed Aris and Chan Yuen Fook. by Md Hashim, Adila, Syed Aris, Sharipah Ruzaina, Chan, Yuen Fook

“…It is the key to inspire social innovation and diminishing prejudice against others. …”
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A study on participation as individual empowerment in Malaysian welfare reform by Jaganathan, Jayamalar, Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi

“…Participation in productive welfare programmes, a social innovation for welfare reform in Malaysia, provided opportunities to welfare recipients for individual empowerment and financial sustainability without depending on welfare aid. …”
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Exploring the evidence for conservation-poverty link: the case of Kg. Tudan, Kiulu, Tuaran, Sabah. by Abdul Aziz, Nor Akmar, Saikim, Fiffy Hanisdah, Jetony, Jerald, Pengiran Bagul, Awangku Hassanal Bahar, Suleiman, Monica, Mohd. Nordin, Nordiana, Hamzah, Zulhazman

“…Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), through some funding from the Federal Government, has implemented the Knowledge Transfer Programme (KTP) and MOSTI Social Innovation (MSI) for alternative uses of the mulberry products. …”

Mitigating flash flooding in the city: Drain or harvest? by Tebogo V. Siphambe, Abdurrahman Aliyu, Kawter Souadji, Samuel Ahana Bayongwa, Tiwangye Amans, Hermann Fomena-Tchinda, Pinisikin Yasmina Banaon, Ciniso Sizwe Gina, Hidayat Ame Vuai, Abdikadir Mohamud Farah, Adji Billo Niang, Abdelhak Taicha, Seifeldin Ahmed, Ahmed Bashir, Chérifa Abdelbaki, Tulinave Burton Mwamila, Willis Gwenzi, Esther Laurentine Nya, Chicgoua Noubactep

“…Clearly, social entrepreneurship and social innovation are expected to catalyse the realization of this social innovation, also in rural areas. …”
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High Gain Converter with Improved Radial Basis Function Network for Fuel Cell Integrated Electric Vehicles by Balasubramanian Girirajan, Himanshu Shekhar, Wen-Cheng Lai, Hariraj Kumar Jagannathan, Parameshachari Bidare Divakarachar

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Challenges in Bootstrapping a Start-Up Venture: Keenga Research Turning the Tables on Venture Capitalists by Prescott C. Ensign, Anthony A. Woods

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Analytical study of nonlinear models using a modified Schrödinger’s equation and logarithmic transformation by Chaoyang Zhu, S.A. Idris, M.E.M. Abdalla, S. Rezapour, S. Shateyi, B. Gunay

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The problem of Russian society modernization by A. V. Oposhnyansky

“…The two-dimensional code did not provide restructuring and transition to post-industrial civilization by borrowing technological and social innovation. Modern ontology of sociality is constructed by synergy of media interactions. …”
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Teacher Professional Development with an Education for Sustainable Development Focus in South Africa: Development of a Network, Curriculum Framework and Resources for Teacher Educa... by Heila Lotz Sisitka

“…Similarly, it fails to support social innovation as a response to environment and sustainability concerns, as awareness raising dominates in dominant knowledge work. …”
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Scaling up community wind energy: the relevance of autonomy and community by Rikard Hjorth Warlenius, Sonja Nettelbladt

“…Abstract Background Renewable energy, especially wind power, is expanding rapidly in Sweden and elsewhere and has left the “niche” to become part of the mainstream energy socio-technical “regime”. However, the social innovation of community-owned wind energy is not expanding alongside. …”
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Why Do Farmers Over-Extract Groundwater Resources? Assessing (Un)sustainable Behaviors Using an Integrated Agent-Centered Framework by Omid M. Ghoochani, Hamed Eskandari Damaneh, Hadi Eskandari Damaneh, Mansour Ghanian, Matthew Cotton

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On new diverse variety analytical optical soliton solutions to the perturbed nonlinear Schrödinger equation by Chaoyang Zhu, Suhad Ali Osman Abdallah, S. Rezapour, Stanford Shateyi

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Supporting Older Adults' Social Inclusion and Well‐Being in Neighbourhoods: The Social Hub Model by Anniriikka Rantala, Outi Valkama, Rita Latikka, Outi Jolanki

“…This study focuses on the Social Hub model, a local social innovation developed in the city of Tampere. Social hubs operate on a neighbourhood level, providing free‐of‐charge service coordination and counselling, group activities, and meeting places for social gatherings. …”
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Factors associated with COVID appropriate behavior and vaccine acceptability – A community-based cross-sectional study among slum dwellers by Sujatha P. Prabhu, Varalakshmi Chandra Sekaran, Lena Ashok

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Mental Condition Monitoring Based on Multimodality Biometry by Masashi Kiguchi, Stephanie Sutoko, Hirokazu Atsumori, Ayako Nishimura, Akiko Obata, Tsukasa Funane, Hiromitsu Nakagawa, Masashi Egi, Hiroyuki Kuriyama

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