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By conceptualizing the rise of the hybrid domain as an emerging institutional form that overlaps public and private interests, this book explores how corporations, states, and civil society organizations develop common agendas, despite the differences in their primary objectives. Using evidence from India, it examines various cases of social innovation in education, energy, health, and finance, which offer solutions for some of the most pressing social challenges of the twenty-first century. Yuko Aoyama and Balaji Parthasarathy position social innovation at the intersection of changing state-market relations, institutional design, and technological innovation. By demonstrating how corporations, social entrepreneurs, and social finance increasingly cross borders to devise local solutions with global technologies, this book illustrates how collaborative governance can serve as a useful alternative to blend economic and social objectives by overriding organizational boundaries which were previously considered ideologically incompatible and, therefore, unbridgeable. Engaging with the question of collective capacity building, this book will be of interest to a broad and multi-disciplinary audience, from those studying innovation, science and technology policy, and entrepreneurship, to those working in international governance and development.

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'This book makes a timely contribution to currently vibrant debates in economic geography on the shifting articulations linking states and markets, on the presence and significance of more-than-capitalist economic practices, and on the potential of learning from the south . The authors' conceptualization of a hybrid domain, and their analysis of its nature in India, provide theoretical and empirical arguments worthy of careful study, reflection and analysis.' -- Eric Sheppard, Humboldt Chair and Professor of Geography, UCLA, US 'In this brilliant and original book, Aoyama and Parthasarathy identify a new paradigm of hybrid governance that offers potential to address the chronic challenges of poverty and development. Challenging ideological conceptions of the state-market dichotomy, the authors reconceptualize governance as collective action driven by stakeholders experimenting with solutions that bridge public, private, and civil society domains. This book chronicles the most creative social problem-solving occurring today, and is a must read for social innovators around the globe.' -- Karen Chapple, Professor of City & Regional Planning, UC-Berkeley, US 'In this illuminating book, Aoyama and Parthasarathy investigate the domain lying between states and markets. They offer a very convincing conceptualization of what they define as hybrid domain, also providing a wealth of empirical evidence on the vigorous world of social innovation in India. This is a must read for anyone with an interest in the future of global socio-economic development.' -- Roberta Rabellotti, Professor of Economics, University of Pavia, Italy

'In this brilliant and original book, Aoyama and Parthasarathy identify a new paradigm of hybrid governance that offers potential to address the chronic challenges of poverty and development. Challenging ideological conceptions of the state-market dichotomy, the authors reconceptualize governance as collective action driven by stakeholders experimenting with solutions that bridge public, private, and civil society domains. This book chronicles the most creative social problem-solving occurring today, and is a must read for social innovators around the globe.' -- Karen Chapple, Professor of City & Regional Planning and Founder of the Center for Community Innovation, University of California at Berkeley, US 'In this illuminating book, Aoyama and Parthasarathy investigate the domain lying between states and markets. They offer a very convincing conceptualization of what they define as hybrid domain, also providing a wealth of empirical evidence on the vigorous world of social innovation in India. This is a must read for anyone with an interest in the future of global socio-economic development.' -- Roberta Rabellotti, Universita di Pavia, Italy

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Yuko Aoyama, Professor, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, US with Balaji Parthasarathy, Professor, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India

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