Application of Social Innovation to Increase Social Participation to Achieve Scientific Referent 

The present study has attempted to propose a set of strategies based on the social innovation approach to improve social participation to achieve the scientific referent.

In pursuing this goal, after extracting the components of scientific referent and social participation from academic literature, leadership statements, policy documents using fuzzy delphi and data mining, has been attempted to calculate, based on the SODA method.

  The status of the components comprising 40 components in the 5 dimensions of the concept of “scientific referent” and 59 components in the 4 dimensions of the concept of "social participation".

Finally, based on the consensus reached on the identified components, suggest strategies based on social innovation. The results showed the application of social innovation as a set of innovative activities aiming to meet a social need, which is to raise the level of social participation to achieve scientific referent, will help the country's main institutions.