A review of the rural-digital policy agenda from a community resilience perspective

Roberts, Elisabeth; Anderson, Brett Anne; Skerratt, Sarah; Farrington, John

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.03.001

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“…We illustrate how different elements from open innovation, namely the coupled, outside-in, and inside-out process can be used to bring these factors together and provide better guidance for innovation. Our results support the call of current research that digital technologies are becoming more and more vital to rural areas and therefore the focus should not merely be on traditional agricultural perspectives but rather on broader business and community perspectives (Roberts et al 2017).…”

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“…This problem gets aggravated as towns are confronted with generally low research and development levels making it harder to establish and push smart solutions (Tödtling and Trippl 2005). As rural literature so far takes a strong agricultural focus with respect to digital technologies -although there is promising potential from an overall community and business perspective in townsthis constitutes a major challenge to overcome (Roberts et al 2017). …”

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“…Furthermore, research on rural areas and development takes a strong agricultural focus and hardly considers digital technologies from an overall community and business perspective (Roberts et al 2017). Low research and development levels in predominantly rural areas (Tödtling and Trippl 2005) aggravate this problem although digital technologies and smart solutions might provide promising solutions for future developments of towns (Roberts et al 2017).…”

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“…Low research and development levels in predominantly rural areas (Tödtling and Trippl 2005) aggravate this problem although digital technologies and smart solutions might provide promising solutions for future developments of towns (Roberts et al 2017).…”

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“…A further challenge is that, especially in towns and rural development, it is common practice to follow and operate a ''one-size-fits-all'' technological solution approachalthough local-specific requirements are highly requiredwhich is why such solutions often fail when they are applied to rural areas with different properties (Roberts et al 2017;Stratigea 2011;Tödtling and Trippl 2005). As rural development and regions are at disadvantage when it comes to competitive positioning in the new era and digital age (Stratigea 2011), a more ''integrated approach that helps them find the usefulness of such technologies for their individual purposes'' is required (Roberts et al 2017, p. 381).…”

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A review of the rural-digital policy agenda from a community resilience perspective

Cited by 126 publications

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