Social innovation, a venture from University Extension for the regional development

Abstract

Aware of the importance and impact of social   innovation in the Colombian and Latin American   context as a transformational and development   strategy, in order to contribute to the strengthening   of university extension in Latin America and the   Caribbean, the members of the National University   Extension Network and the Latin American Union   of University Extension-ULEU have been working in    recent years on the impact of one of the modalities of   the so-called “third function”.    

 In this sense, this paper contains a synthesis of the   analyzed during a couple of years, starting from a   brief introduction to social innovation, followed by an   overview of the panorama in Colombia, Latin America   and the Caribbean, to continue with the introduction   of some successful practices in the subject and end, as   a reflection for readers, with a series of challenges in   the field, especially for the Colombian case.