Innovation, sustainability and democracy: an analysis of grassroots contributions
Innovation, sustainability and democracy: an analysis of grassroots contributions
复制标题
创新、可持续性和民主：草根贡献分析
DOI：
--
复制
发表时间：
2017
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
A. Stirling
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Adrian Smith;A. Stirling
在本文中，我们介绍了一个在全球各个角落蓬勃发展了几十年的活动领域，即可持续发展的基层创新。我们还讨论了为什么创新总体上是民主的问题。结合这两点，我们探讨了基层创新如何促进我们所谓的创新民主，并帮助引导创新，使其支持而不是阻碍社会正义和环境恢复力。根据能源、食品和制造业等经验领域的定性案例研究，我们建议采取以下四种相关方式：草根创新的过程本身可以帮助更广泛地培养更民主的创新实践。2. 从这些过程中产生的基层创新可以以有助于民主实践的方式支持花旗集团和活动。3. 草根创新可以创造特殊的社会技术配置，否则这些配置可能会被主流创新系统周围的利益所压制。4. 从最广泛的政治意义上讲，基层创新有助于培养总体水平的社会多样性，这对民主的健康发展至关重要。本文最后提出了一些建议，说明致力于创新民主的社会如何通过在文化、基础设施、培训、投资和开放方面的变革，更好地支持基层活动并从中受益。
In this paper we introduce an area of activity that has flourished for decades in all corners of the globe, namely grassroots innovation for sustainable development. We also argue why innovation in general is a matter for democracy. Combining these two points, we explore how grassroots innovation can contribute to what we call innovation democracy, and help guide innovation so that it supports rather than hinders social justice and environmental resilience. Drawing upon qual- itative case studies from empirical domains including energy, food, and manufacture, we suggest it does so in four related ways: 1. Processes of grassroots innovation can help in their own right to cultivate the more democratic practice of innovation more generally. 2. Grassroots innovations that result from these processes can support citi- zens and activities in ways that can contribute to practice of democracy. 3. Grassroots innovations can create particular empowering sociotechnical configurations that might otherwise be suppressed by interests around more mainstream innovation systems. 4. Grassroots innovations can help nurture general levels of social diversity that are important for the health of democracy in its widest political senses. The paper finishes with a few suggestions for how societies committed to innovation democracy can better support and benefit from grassroots activity, by working at changes in culture, infrastructure, training, investment, and openness.
DOI：
10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.02.008
发表时间：
2013-10-01
影响因子：
8.9
作者：
Hargreaves, Tom;Hielscher, Sabine;Smith, Adrian
通讯作者：
Smith, Adrian