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Social Capital as an Important Development Factor of Social Innovations

Summary/Abstract: Modern economic conditions are characterized by significant dynamics and high level of insecurity, thus causing social capital to acquire particular relevance. One of the horizontal principles specified in the "Innovativeness and Efficiency Strategy of the Economy. Dynamic Poland 2020", entitled. "Partnership and cooperation" stipulates that: "Appropriate level of social capital constitutes a condition for cooperation based on trust and is a starting point for the development of modern economy. The conducted research, however, reveals that Polish society is still heading rather towards passive adaptation and not development and innovativeness". Today, social capital is considered to be a modern growth and socio-economic development factor since it increases the effectiveness of hard growth factors. Quality of social capital can decide about the competitive ability and innovativeness on micro and macroeconomic level. The aim of this article is to present the concept of social capital by taking into account the influence of this capital on functioning of a social innovation. It is a new and simultaneously very topical issue that is reflected in numerous theoretical and empirical studies published in the world literature over the last years. The analysis of the social capital impact on the social innovation development was preceded by the presentation of the concept of social capital. It is in the article that an attempt to synthesize different research trends, important both for the development of the theory of social capital and, in particular, for the explanation of the role of social capital for the social innovation development, was taken.

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