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This session connects people interested or involved in alternative economy initiatives and people thinking about ideal contextual framework conditions for such initiatives. Social, solidarity or secondary economy initiatives employ alternative organisational or ownership structures to deliver services or provide support that the ‘free market’, and the political institutions it is based on, deliver merely insufficiently or fail to deliver entirely. TRANSIT research found that a primary motivation for people to engage in or support social innovation initiatives is a yearning for purposeful and meaningful activities that require competence and that offer autonomy and personal relatedness. History has shown that contextual conditions and institutional design are crucial to shield successful alternative economy initiatives from profit-seeking, hostile takeovers. We will discuss design, implementation and context, including interventions in social welfare provision, company law or the science system, for strong and lasting social initiatives that may form the foundation of a ‘humanised economy’.
