Peters, Michael A.Heraud, Richard2015-08-2720152015-08-272015Peters, M. A., & Heraud, R. (2015). Toward a political theory of social innovation: collective intelligence and the co-creation of social goods. Journal of Self-Governance and Management Economics, 3(3), 7–23.2329-4175https://hdl.handle.net/10289/9569This paper proposes a political theory of social innovation. The paper begins by introducing and reviewing recent claims made for the ways in which social innovation can co-create public goods and services by utilizing forms of collection intelligence (CI) and CI Internet-based platforms. The paper provides a discussion and classification of the literature on collective intelligence before investigation the question of new forms and ways of delivering public goods and services through forms of co-creation and co-production.application/pdfenThis article has been published in the journal: Journal of Self-Governance and Management Economics.social innovationpolitical theorycollective intelligenceco-creationpublic goodsJournal Article