Interpretations of Innovation in Rural Development. The Cases of Leader Projects in Lecce (Italy) and Granada (Spain) in 2007–2013 Period

Navarro, Francisco; Labianca, Marilena; García, Eugenio Cejudo; Rubertis, Stefano De; Salento, Angelo; Martos, Juan Carlos Maroto; Belliggiano, Angelo

doi:10.2478/euco-2018-0007

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“…In the new BMs, induced by the use of ICT, the dimensions of proximity are reshaped and have very different relevance in the design and development of the models and they are related to the innovations. Following this approach, the relevance of ICT in BM is not just linked to support the developing and managing business processes (Veit et al 2014), but it is also linked to the creation and animation of the network itself (Navarro et al, 2018, Labianca et al 2016) and the new proximity. ICT reshapes the geographical proximity completely.…”

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Information and Communication Infrastructures and New Business Models in Rural Areas: The Case of Molise Region in Italy

Ievoli

Belliggiano

Marandola

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European Countryside

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The paper deals with the role of ICT and the related infrastructures to induce innovations for sustainable rural development. In particular, it focuses on the innovations induced by ICT in farms and in new rural firms, and on how digital infrastructures support and generate social innovation mechanisms, leading to the consolidation of entrepreneurship and dissemination of ICT-based innovation in rural areas. The hypothesis is that the presence of digital infrastructures generates a double effect: overcoming the concept of geographical proximity (relevant for remote rural areas) and promoting social innovation. In particular, this paper examines the role of social innovation to create a new demand for products, services and organisational models for farms and rural enterprises, promoting further innovation. To target the objectives, the work analyses three case studies of new business models (BMs) based on ICT innovation. The analysis focuses on the most important interactions, learning and organisational processes within the new enterprises and among the new farms/enterprises and the other economic and institutional actors, and on how they were shaped and changed by the use of ICT, relating them to a conceptual model. These three cases, although pioneering, are important since they give an original response to some of the main problems and needs of remote and inner rural areas, as for the access to high value segment of food market, the information deliveries about attractiveness of landscape and countryside for foreigners, investors and tourists and the creation of new stable relation with consumers/citizens in the urban areas. The three cases have been analysed with the aim to identify how the ICT, and the related innovations, create an interconnection between four characteristic elements of the BMs (value creation, supply chain, customer interfaces, financial model) and the restructuring of proximity dimensions (cognitive, institutional, social, geographical, organizational). The work shows how these three cases have several communalities, but also different aspects with respect to our objective of analysis: there are different ways in which the four characteristic elements of the BM are constructed and also different in the role that the different dimensions of proximity play in structuring the innovation process in each one of them. More generally, the results of the work also lead to consider a new role for public investments in ICT infrastructures: public administrations should intervene in order to create a coherence within projects of public and private initiatives.

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Information and Communication Infrastructures and New Business Models in Rural Areas: The Case of Molise Region in Italy

Ievoli

Belliggiano

Marandola

et al. 2019

European Countryside

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“…For example, Mondéjar et al [25] stated that LEADER does not arise exclusively for the attainment of quantifiable economic or social objectives, but as a laboratory of ideas with which to experiment innovation and transfer results. In this sense, Navarro et al [26,27] studied innovative projects in Lecce (Italy) and Granada (Spain) and examine the impact of local participation with LEADER Approach by means of surveys of LAG managers in two areas in Spain (Andalusia) and UK (Wales). Social capital derived from LEADER was measured by Wojewódzka-Wiewiórska et al [28].…”

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Principal Component Analysis of the LEADER Approach (2007–2013) in South Western Europe (Extremadura and Alentejo)

Masot

Alonso

Moreno³

2019

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Since the end of the last century, the Rural Development Policy and the associated Rural Development Aid have been implemented (according to the LEADER Approach) in European rural areas as a model of endogenous, integrated, and innovative development. Its objective is to reduce the differences of development in these areas. The objective of this paper is to analyze statistically (using Principal Component Analysis) the investments and projects carried out during the period of 2007–2013 in the regions of Extremadura and Alentejo. These two border regions have many territorial similarities but also historical, cultural, and political differences. These variations may contribute to a different implementation of the LEADER Approach. As determined by the results from the statistical analysis of economic aids and demographic variables, it is evident that there are differences in the management of the Rural Development Aid in both territories but resemblances in the results.

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“…SI, considered an innovation of and for society, includes rethinking social and spatial solidarity within and beyond rural regions (Bock 2016). To this end, SI encourages local linkages and collective learning cultures (Navarro et al 2018). In addition, and, perhaps most importantly, by bringing change to rural regions, SI challenges existing institutional contexts (Hulgard, Ferreira 2019).…”

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Local Development Initiatives as Promoters of Social Innovation: Evidence from Two European Rural Regions

Novikova

Ferreiro

Stryjakiewicz

2020

Quaestiones Geographicae

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AbstractSocial innovation entered the academic discourse several decades ago and has since been seen as a way of tackling existing problems in various contexts. Although an extensive body of research has been conducted into the role of social innovation in urban context, there is still a gap when it comes to studying the role of social innovation in the development of rural areas. In this paper, an attempt is made to look at the role of Local Action Groups (LAGs) and Local Development Associations (LDAs) as promoters of social innovation in rural areas in Austria and Portugal, aiming to understand the role of such organisations and the challenges faced by the latter in promoting social innovation.

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Interpretations of Innovation in Rural Development. The Cases of Leader Projects in Lecce (Italy) and Granada (Spain) in 2007–2013 Period

Cited by 32 publications

References 33 publications

Information and Communication Infrastructures and New Business Models in Rural Areas: The Case of Molise Region in Italy

Information and Communication Infrastructures and New Business Models in Rural Areas: The Case of Molise Region in Italy

Principal Component Analysis of the LEADER Approach (2007–2013) in South Western Europe (Extremadura and Alentejo)

Local Development Initiatives as Promoters of Social Innovation: Evidence from Two European Rural Regions

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