L’économie sociale au Québec, au coeur de l’innovation et des transformations sociales

Abstract

Les innovations sociales portées par les acteurs d’économie sociale sont de deux ordres, renouvelant les manières de faire des organisations mais générant aussi de nouveaux rapports entre le marché, l’État et la société civile. Afin de mieux comprendre et analyser les innovations en économie sociale, il est important de se poser la question des indicateurs de performance appropriés, de développer un système de données plus exhaustives sur le secteur et de mener des comparaisons internationales.

This lecture was pronounced in the context of the BMO Conferences organized by the Consortium on Innovation, Performance and Welfare in the Knowledge Economy (CIBL’es) on April 4 2006. This presentation was followed by a lecture by Ms Nancy Neamtan, chief executive officer of the Chantier de l’économie sociale. Social innovations carried by the actors of the social economy are of two kinds, renewing the ways of doing things in organizations, but generating as well new relationships between market, State and civil society. In order to better understand and analyse innovations in the social economy, it is important to ask the questions of which performance indicators are the most appropriate, to develop a more exhaustive data system, and to undertake international comparisons. This conference was made possible thanks to, in part, BMO Financial Group.