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Social Innovation in Depopulating Rural Areas: Exploring Drivers and Barriers and Related Roles of Intermediaries Throughout the Process
No full textSocial Innovation (SI) refers to the ability to elaborate novel ideas bringing social value, which positively relates to the involved communities in terms of quality of life, solidarity and well-being, among other aspects. SI may produce or enhance social capital, being based on participation and actors’ mobilization and aims to establish new or improve existing means of collaborative action and/or governance structures. Moreover, it creates new knowledge from the exchange among actors. Sometimes, SI originates from a reaction to social injustice. Indeed, this study investigates an initiative dedicated to solidarity, co-creation and collaboration among rural tourism-related firms located in Sardinian inner rural areas (Barca et al. 2014; Bisaschi et al. 2021). SI may work as a way to overcome social and economic issues affecting such places, through bottom-up or down-up processes often coordinated by innovation intermediaries. This study qualitatively investigates the case of a non-profit initiative, SardiniaSpopTourism, by analysing it under the lens of SI to assess whether or not it can be described in such a way, stressing the SI-related projects’ drivers and barriers and finally considering whether the promoting group acted as an innovation intermediary
Consolidating Mechanisms for Co-creating Innovation in Rural Areas: How Universities and Public Institutions Can Bring Value to the Territory Through Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange
No full textThis article explores the mechanisms enacted to co-create innovation in rural areas, focusing on how universities and public institutions can collaborate and add value to their territory. The case study investigates three agrifood projects carried out in the Marche region between 2017 and 2022 to analyse the impact of university-public institution collaboration on knowledge sharing and on the development of a regional innovation ecosystem. In particular, the university appears to act as a facilitator in the knowledge co-creation process, supporting the analysis of bottom-up community issues, and identifying strategies to enhance rural innovation capacity. The study employs qualitative research methods, particularly the key informant technique, to understand collaboration opportunities, approaches for knowledge exchange, and evaluation of outcomes. Following this framework, the results are expected to contribute to a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses emerging from this collaboration, as well as consolidating the multi-stakeholder approach to enhance the effectiveness of co-creation strategies
Innovation and Knowledge in Agri-Food and Environmental Systems: Challenges and Opportunities in a Time of Recovery and Resilience
No full textAs noted in the LVIII SIDEA Conference call for paper, in the challenging scenario of deep transformations, uncertainties and turbolences that the European and Italian agri-food and environmental systems are currently facing, the strong links between technological innovation, multi-sectoral sustainability, adaptability and resilience cannot be disregarded
Consumer Values and the Choice of Specialty Foods: The Case of the Oliva Ascolana del Piceno (Protected Designation of Origin)
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Old World Wineries and Market Orientation: Empirical Evidences from the Italian Wine Industry
No full textMarketing Research and Sensory Analysis: A Reasoned Review and Agenda of their Contribution to Market Orientation in the Food Industry
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