Introduction: struggling with innovations. Social innovations and conflicts in urban development and planning

Christmann, Gabriela B.

doi:10.1080/09654313.2019.1639396

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“…This section compares the three case studies discussed above according to two analytical dimensions introduced in the chapter ‘Social innovation, external urban factors and cross‐border constellations of actors’: the role of external (urban) factors and cross‐border constellations of actors (including heterogeneous bodies of knowledge and conflicts) for rural social innovation. Although the case studies show evidence of various struggles in the context of innovation (Christmann ) and even of negative effects resulting from innovation processes, they nevertheless support the argument that rural social innovation stimulates the intersection of rural and urban elements (strengthening rural‐urban relations) and helps bridge the rural‐urban divide. External urban factors: The examples of Kremmen, Krugau und Breitenbach show the relevance of external urban factors for influencing local initiatives and their (potentially) innovative projects.…”

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“…The initiatives were, for instance, dependent on external funding (representing the external economic environment in the sense of Dobele ) – be it from a ministry, a foundation or banks – and influenced by negative public discourses (representing the external political environment in the sense of Dobele ). Although these negative public discourses can reinforce social problems and possibly exacerbate the process of marginalisation (Christmann ), they can also motivate actors to find innovative and creative solutions to local problems (Murray et al . , p. 15).…”

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“…The authors conclude that rural social innovation stimulates the intersection of rural and urban elements (strengthening rural‐urban relations) and the gradual removal of antagonisms between both realms. They also devote attention to struggles emerging in the context of innovation (Christmann ) and to possible negative effects of innovation processes which may even aggravate initial problems.…”

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Social Innovation in Rural Regions: Urban Impulses and Cross‐Border Constellations of Actors

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2018

Sociologia Ruralis

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Research on social innovation in rural regions is gaining momentum. However, the question where new impulses for innovation in rural regions are being created remains unanswered. This article argues that social innovation processes in rural regions can be inspired by cross‐border constellations of actors and do, at times, build on bodies of knowledge and practices widespread in urban areas. Ethnographic data from Germany's rural Eifel region in Rhineland‐Palatinate, Lower Lusatia, and the Uckermark region located in Brandenburg illustrates the way in which external urban factors and cross‐border constellations of actors can influence rural social innovation. Thereby, rural social innovation stimulates the intersection of rural and urban elements (strengthening rural‐urban relations) and the erosion of rural‐urban antagonisms.

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Social Innovation in Rural Regions: Urban Impulses and Cross‐Border Constellations of Actors

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Federwisch

2018

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…Despite the abundant literature about SI, the notion may be blurred too much in the current policy debate [56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73]. As Mihci [74] (p. 18) highlights, insofar as "many theoretical approaches, ideas and practices labelled under the category of SI have relatively little in common", such a vagueness and fuzziness might make the intervention process even more complex and challenging.…”

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Democratising Smart Cities? Penta-Helix Multistakeholder Social Innovation Framework

Calzada

2020

Smart Cities

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The smart cities policy approach has been intensively implemented in European cities under the Horizon 2020 programme. However, these implementations not only reduce the interdependencies among stakeholders to technocratic Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) models, but also fail to question the identities of strategic stakeholders and how they prioritise their business/social models. These aspects are putting democracy at stake in smart cities. Therefore, this article aims to unfold and operationalise multistakeholders’ policy frameworks from the social innovation perspective by suggesting the ex-novo penta-helix framework—including public, private, academia, civic society, and social entrepreneurs/activists—to extend the triple and quadruple-helix frameworks. Based on fieldwork action research conducted from February 2017 to December 2018—triangulating desk research, 75 interviews, and three validation workshops—this article applies the penta-helix framework to map out five strategic dimensions related to (i) multistakeholder helix framework and (ii) the resulting business/social models comparatively in three follower cities of the H2020-Replicate project: Essen (Germany), Lausanne (Switzerland), and Nilüfer (Turkey). For each case study, the findings reveal: (i) a unique multistakeholder composition, (ii) diverse preferences on business/social models, (iii) a regular presence of the fifth helix as intermediaries, and (iv) the willingness to experiment with democratic arrangements beyond the hegemonic PPP.

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“…2005; Franz et al 2018;Christmann 2020). In 2015 the European Commission even published a research proposal under the Horizon 2020 framework, in which social innovation was presented as a novel tool for rural development (Bock 2016, p. 553).…”

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Social innovation in rural areas

Schermer

Kroismayr

2020

Österreich Z Soziol

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This special issue is dedicated to the various forms of social innovations in rural areas. In 2017, at the biannual Conference of the Austrian Sociological Association in Graz, the Working Group "Rural Social Research" organized three sessions covering this topic. The decision to address this issue was motivated by the fact that rural areas are facing significant challenges: migration, demographic change, dismantling of infrastructure, to name but a few, with more or less serious consequences affecting the quality of life of the rural population. However, in some places these challenges are being actively addressed with new ideas. This special issue aims to present the results of these sessions and to discuss current and innovative answers to tackle the challenges faced in rural areas. Before doing so, we want to reflect upon the concept of social innovation by asking what is meant by the term, in which contexts it is taken up, and who has a particular interest in promoting this idea and why. First mentioned in the 1970s (Zapf 1989), the concept of social innovation has been increasingly discussed, gaining particular momentum since the 1990s (Christmann 2019). In 1992, a new perspective was developed at the programmatic level of European research and innovation policy, by expanding the content of innovation and understanding it as a social phenomenon (Aderhold 2016). As a result it was picked up by different disciplines, like economics (

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Introduction: struggling with innovations. Social innovations and conflicts in urban development and planning

Cited by 32 publications

References 21 publications

Social Innovation in Rural Regions: Urban Impulses and Cross‐Border Constellations of Actors

Social Innovation in Rural Regions: Urban Impulses and Cross‐Border Constellations of Actors

Democratising Smart Cities? Penta-Helix Multistakeholder Social Innovation Framework

Social innovation in rural areas

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