This paper explores the range of expansion/development/growth pathways (or scaling) that might occur with social innovations, with reference to social innovation in rural areas. It explores the lack of a clear conceptualization of both social innovation as a phenomenon and the possible growth and expansion pathways that might arise. Based on a survey of the diverse literature on the expansion/development/growth pathways of social innovations, and illustrated primarily by European examples, the paper develops a typology built around an attempted synthesis of the extant typologies found in published literature. Different theories of rural development are employed to help explain the divergent development pathways that might be anticipated in rural areas.

本文参考农村地区的社会创新，探讨了社会创新可能发生的扩展/发展/增长途径（或规模化）的范围。它探讨了社会创新作为一种现象以及可能出现的增长和扩张途径缺乏清晰的概念化。基于对关于社会创新的扩展/发展/增长途径的各种文献的调查，并主要通过欧洲例子进行说明，本文开发了一种类型学，该类型学围绕已发表文献中发现的现存类型学的尝试综合而构建。不同的农村发展理论被用来帮助解释农村地区可能出现的不同发展路径。