On the role of key players in rural social innovation processes

Richter, Ralph; Christmann, Gabriela B.

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.04.010

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“…Our findings on farmers' insecurity and partners' relationships confirm propositions of Richter and Christmann (2021): key players are needed for dealing with internal opposition and overcoming external hurdles. These elements argue for the implementation of intermediation between stakeholders in agricultural extension to promote better risk management (Bertolozzi-Caredio et al, 2021) and farmers' role transitions (Hauser et al, 2016).…”

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Ex-post consequences of participatory foresight processes in agriculture. How to help dairy farmers to face outcomes of collective decisions planning?

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Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The analysis of the consequences of participatory foresight in agriculture over the long term is little studied in the scientific literature. In particular, it questions how farmers deal with the proposed scenarios afterwards and the modalities of their implementation. This article aims to overcome this by proposing an ex-post analysis of a foresight process with New World Kirkpatrick's Model (NWKM) carried out in mid-2018 in the Fourme de Montbrison cheese Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) area in the Massif Central (France). A set of 24 semi-structured interviews was conducted in spring and summer 2020 with the dairy farmers involved. Moreover, collective organization has been investigated through participatory observation and an analysis of project's progress reports until March 2021. The results show that while the engagement of farmers in the collective dynamic remains, it needs to be continuously rebuilt over time, particularly in order to overcome the effects of social risk-taking and insecurity that farmers must face. In addition, the place of stakeholders needs to be clarified. The article proposes a series of guidelines based on the project's experience and the “Monitor and Adjust” approach of the NWKM. It demonstrates the importance of establishing long-term follow-ups to foresight approaches to encourage farmers into action.

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Section: Adaptive Governance With Stakeholderssupporting

confidence: 76%

Ex-post consequences of participatory foresight processes in agriculture. How to help dairy farmers to face outcomes of collective decisions planning?

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Etienne

Hostiou

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…Moreover, the average number of participations per entity is positively related to the regional average degree in the regional network as well as with the proportion of regional entities connected among them (connectivity). Thus, bigger participants contribute to a better integrated regional innovation system; therefore, large participants are key players who act as intermediaries between communities and supra-regional networks, as has already been demonstrated by previous works [61,62].…”

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Contribution of the Horizon2020 Program to the Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialization in Coal Regions in Transition: The Spanish Case

2022

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This work aims to assess how regional innovation systems support research and innovation smart specialization strategies (RIS3) in coal intensive regions. Although many authors have analyzed energy transition paths for the European coal regions, no study has assessed how the network properties of their innovation systems are aligned with the priorities identified in their RIS3. This work fills this gap, relying on social network analysis (SNA) to assess innovation systems’ underlying networks, considering the active role of their nodes, thus, contributing to the innovation systems literature in the areas of modelling, simulation and performance evaluation. Within this work, regional innovation systems are modelled as research networks. These networks are promoted by the consortia funded by the European H2020 program. The assessment of the topology and properties of these networks enables the evaluation of the functioning of the innovation system, its technological strengths, as well as the key players involved. Based on these results, the characteristics of the innovation systems are compared to the priorities established by the RIS3. Three Spanish coal intensive regions (Aragón, Asturias and Castilla y León) are considered as use cases in this study. The obtained results indicate that, in some cases, the technological strengths of the regional innovation systems are not considered in the identification of the RIS3 priorities, while some RIS3 priorities are not supported by the innovation system. Considering these results, this paper proposes recommendations for regional and European policymakers, as well as for participants in the European research programs.

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“…Such drivers may, for instance, be smart villagers (Zerrer and Sept, 2020), diverse communities (Müller and Ibert, 2015;Brinks, 2016;Lombardi et al, 2020;Martinus, 2022), social entrepreneurs (Richter et al, 2020), or government agents (Mascarenhas et al, 2020;Wolf et al, 2021). These social actors do not necessarily regard themselves as innovators, but nevertheless generate innovations, sometimes, for example, in the form of social innovations (Domanski et al, 2020;Richter and Christmann, 2021) Thirdly, recent studies on the time-spatial dimensions of innovation processes reveal the multi-local nature of such processes (Schmidt et al, 2018). Multiple actors are engaged in finding novel solutions to practical problems at different sites, in different organisations and in different social settings.…”

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Innovation Salons – Events for dialogical knowledge transfer between civil society and higher education institutions

Schmidt

Stadermann²

2022

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are recognised as generators for innovative solution relevant for shaping socio-economic transformation processes, for which knowledge transfer plays a crucial role. However, innovation studies demonstrate that innovative solutions, for example, in form of social innovation are generated by a wide variety of creative, social, or cultural actors with little or no integration of HEIs. Several regions and countries, therefore, recently set up innovation strategies that foster new forms of collaboration among societal actors and HEIs. The German Ministry for Education and Research developed the ‘Innovative Hochschule’ programme for initiating and testing new knowledge transfer instruments of HEIs to reach out to and interact with a broader society. Within this scope we developed ‘Innovation Salons’ as an instrument for dialogical knowledge transfer that helps regional HEIs to tie in with and unfold agency in ongoing regional (social) innovation processes. This paper introduces a pilot Innovation Salon as a potential approach for how HEIs may reach out to a-typical innovation actors for shaping social and problem-centred regional innovation processes. Key conclusions underline the importance of scouting for ongoing processes of generating novel regional solutions and of curating the interaction between social society actors and HEIs.

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On the role of key players in rural social innovation processes

Cited by 22 publications

References 18 publications

Ex-post consequences of participatory foresight processes in agriculture. How to help dairy farmers to face outcomes of collective decisions planning?

Ex-post consequences of participatory foresight processes in agriculture. How to help dairy farmers to face outcomes of collective decisions planning?

Contribution of the Horizon2020 Program to the Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialization in Coal Regions in Transition: The Spanish Case

Innovation Salons – Events for dialogical knowledge transfer between civil society and higher education institutions

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