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This book addresses 'the economics of social innovation', a widely
neglected topic in regional development. The chapters in this
edited volume cover distinct but complementary and related aspects
concerning the existing gap between the hitherto unexploited
potential of social innovation in relation to socio-economic
challenges that regions across Europe and globally face. Research
on social innovation has gained momentum over the last decade,
spurred notably by the growing interest in social issues related to
policy making, public management and entrepreneurship in response
to the grand challenges societies in Europe and worldwide face.
Accelerated by the normative turn in research and innovation
policies towards 'missions', social innovation is nowadays a
central element on policy agendas, from the urban and regional
level to the national and subnational level of the European
Commission and the OECD. However, for social innovations to unfold
their full potential a better understanding of underlying
mechanisms, processes and impacts is necessary. The first three
chapters focus on framework conditions and characteristics of
social innovation. The following two chapters emphasise the
determinants of social innovation and translocal empowerment. In
the last part, attention is devoted to social innovation in
specific fields such as health care and greening society, and
social innovations' transformative potential. The chapters in this
book were originally published as a special issue of the journal,
European Planning Studies.
Europe has its strength in regional cultural diversity. However,
current debates surrounding globalisation and the integration of
markets tend to focus on the homogenisation of cultures, whilst the
emergence of vital and innovative regional cultures has typically
been neglected. This edited collection addresses this gap,
considering relevant questions such as how strategies,
orientations, values and symbols help a company to become aware of
its location, and how different regional cultures are of interest
to particular types of companies. The book's central focus is the
interaction of regional and corporate cultures; how different
cultures come together, shape each other and change. The volume
takes an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together research
from cultural science, regional science, social science and
economics. This book was originally published as a special issue of
the journal European Planning Studies.
Europe has its strength in regional cultural diversity. However,
current debates surrounding globalisation and the integration of
markets tend to focus on the homogenisation of cultures, whilst the
emergence of vital and innovative regional cultures has typically
been neglected. This edited collection addresses this gap,
considering relevant questions such as how strategies,
orientations, values and symbols help a company to become aware of
its location, and how different regional cultures are of interest
to particular types of companies. The book's central focus is the
interaction of regional and corporate cultures; how different
cultures come together, shape each other and change. The volume
takes an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together research
from cultural science, regional science, social science and
economics. This book was originally published as a special issue of
the journal European Planning Studies.
Die Relevanz des Regionalisierungskonzepts wird in verschiedenen
sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskursen thematisiert, so im Zusammenhang
mit der Globalisierung der Wirtschaft und der Herausbildung
regionaler Netzwerke oder der Internationalisierung und
Europaisierung der Politik.
Die Publikation beschaftigt sich mit Fragen, die im Zusammenhang
mit dem steuerungstheoretischen Diskurs gestellt sind. Aus den
Veranderungen der Staatstatigkeit werden Merkmale und Funktionen
regionaler Politikabgeleitet. Gefragt wird nach den
Spannungsfeldern, aber auch Grenzen von Regionalisierung.
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