ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how social and solidarity economy (SSE) actors promote social innovation in two Latin American countries and especially in what ways values and practices of social enterprises can contribute to the development of social innovations. It relies on the concept of the SSE. Thus, while the social economy incorporates practices according to their origin, the solidarity economy focuses on the institutionalization and recurrence of such practices. To exemplify the linkage between social innovation and the SSE, the authors have selected the case of the social enterprise 'Someone Somewhere' in Mexico; and the case of a production and marketing co-operative in the city of Rosario, Argentina. This chapter aimed to examine the link between social innovation and SSE and how solidarity is important to understand it. Solidarity was important to reach it and to allow a change in social relations.
