The concept of �social innovation� is relatively new in Russia in terms of theoretical or methodological design, and also practical use. The paper presents the results of studies on the propagation characteristics of social innovation, conducted from the standpoint of traditional and specific approaches. It is shown that in the Russian Federation�s current environment the spread of social innovation is of�viscous�behavior, which manifests itself, in particular, in the limited capacity of the innovations� spread and their appropriate scaling. Practical steps taken to regulate the spread of social innovations have led to the foundation of the Social Initiatives Agency � the institution that accumulates social initiatives, determines goals and priorities for the development and spread of social innovations. However, given the novelty of this concept in the country, development of specific methods that allow to study innovation processes in the social sector comes to be of special importance. Implementation of such methods will contribute to a comprehensive analysis and will improve the validity of forecast assessments. One approach to the implementation of the above is to use the concept of innovation diffusion, within the framework of which the authors proposed a method for determining the parameters of the Bass model, carried out the appropriate calculations and interpreted the obtained results.

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