RADAR SOCIAL: A MATURITY ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
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Social Innovation; Impact Governance; Intellectual Property; Social Technology Transfer; Maturity MetricsAbstract
Social Innovation (SI) represents a response to socioeconomic asymmetries and contemporary crises, despite the persistent absence of maturity assessment tools applied to its specific context. While technological innovations benefit from consolidated readiness scales, Social Innovation lacks methodologically equivalent instruments capable of systematically diagnosing the maturity level of an initiative to enable scalability. This article presents the development and operationalization of the Radar Social tool, grounded in the Social Readiness Level (SRL) methodology, integrating systematic literature review (1970–2024), documentary research on regulatory frameworks, and practical application simulation in gender-based violence contexts. The Radar Social tool structures a multilevel evaluation matrix operating across three sequential phases and nine maturity levels, each level equipped with measurable indicators. Operationalization is demonstrated through applied simulation. The instrumentalization of SRL metrics in tools such as Radar Social offers potential for Scientific and Technological Institutions (STIs) and social impact entrepreneurship ecosystems, providing evidence-based governance frameworks for management and valuation of intangible assets articulating community knowledge, technology, and participatory processes. The study maps limitations inherent in measuring social processes, data governance complexities, and knowledge protection mechanisms. It is concluded that the proposed tool, when integrated into mechanisms of community participation, can contribute both to more assertive allocation of social capital and to reconfiguration of safeguards against undue appropriation of knowledge.
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