This essay embraces a notion of critical scholarship concerned with proposing normative and actionable alternatives that can create more inclusive societies and focuses on the role of institutionalizing experimental places for inclusive social innovation as a bottom-up strategic response to welfare state reforms. By mobilizing the notions of utopias and heterotopias in Foucault, the paper sheds light on the opportunity to move from policy utopias to democratic heterotopias, discussing the politics embedded in this cognitive shift and the democratic nature of social innovation changing social and governance relations by interacting with politico-administrative systems. Some obstacles to institutionalizing social innovation are highlighted, as well as some key governance mechanisms that can be activated either by public and/or social purpose organizations to try to overcome those obstacles. Finally, we discuss the importance of linking inclusive social innovation with democratic, rather than market logics.

本文采用批判性学术概念，提出规范性和可操作的替代方案，以创建更具包容性的社会，并重点关注将包容性社会创新实验场所制度化作为对福利国家改革的自下而上的战略回应的作用。通过运用福柯的乌托邦和异托邦概念，本文阐明了从政策乌托邦转向民主异托邦的机会，讨论了这种认知转变中蕴藏的政治以及社会创新的民主本质，通过与人的互动来改变社会和治理关系。政治行政系统。强调了社会创新制度化的一些障碍，以及公共和/或社会目的组织可以激活的一些关键治理机制，以试图克服这些障碍。最后，我们讨论了将包容性社会创新与民主而非市场逻辑联系起来的重要性。