Inclusive innovation activity is based not only on technological innovations, but
also on the work processes automation, delivery systems and innovations within
business processes of cost saving and increasing access. It means that inclusive
innovations can be developed on the basis of advanced research or using previously
known technologies [2].
Inclusive innovation activity is primarily aimed at promoting access to basic
goods and services and expanding economic rights and opportunities through efforts
of creation, obtaining, adaption, digestion and acquiring of knowledge directly oriented
to meet the needs of marginalized social groups.
All over the world inclusive innovations are used to improve quality and standard
of living, increase the well-being of citizens, resolute socially significant and
environmental issues. For that reason, equal attention should be paid to the social
innovations implementation that promote the civil society construction capable of
accepting and proposing innovative projects of different directions.
Thus, in the USA, the integral part of innovations realization and socially
responsible business development are public-private partnerships, private and public
initiatives implementation with the state support. The European Union is pursuing the
policy of ensuring cooperation in the social sphere, aimed at campaign poverty and
social inequality, as well as increasing the significance of this problem and recognizing
the fundamental rights of people in distress, with the opportunities provision for such
people to live and take an active part in public life. Priority areas include development
and implementation of social innovation support programmes for vulnerable segments
of the population based on the innovative technologies provision in education and
training, and the provision of jobs that would enable them to employ the full working
potential.
Inclusive innovation programmes should also include the creation of mechanisms
that will encourage poor people to codevelop and improve inclusive solutions. As the
World Bank noted in 2013, the returns from inclusive innovations will be more
significant in the long run if developing countries strengthen capacity to develop their
own inclusive innovative solutions in partnership with national, regional and global
organizations in the innovations area.
Thus, it can be concluded that in the world practice inclusive innovation is an
instrument for overcoming economic, environmental and social problems to combat
poverty, coping with incomes inequality, increasing the living standards and quality of
socially vulnerable social groups, respect for human rights, handicapped citizens’
socialization, effective using of human resources. In the Western society the
development and implementation of inclusive innovations is not only a task of the state,
but also of entrepreneurs and non-governmental organizations. The development and
implementation of inclusive innovation policies can help to achieve a more equitable,
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