Social Innovation: The Promise and the Reality in Marginalised Rural Areas in Europe
Social Innovation: The Promise and the Reality in Marginalised Rural Areas in Europe
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社会创新：欧洲边缘化农村地区的承诺与现实
作者：
B. Slee;R. Lukesch;E. Ravazzoli
在本文中，我们探讨了社会创新的概念，在边缘农村地区提供积极的社会，经济和环境成果的概念和实践手段。定义进行了批判性的评价，并探讨了长期社会创新（在管理科学和批判社会科学）的双重当代起源。在概念上存在着许多混乱，特别是关于民间社会机构在社会创新中的核心或可取程度。社会创新可以被视为与一系列为创新和农村发展提供信息的理论密切相关，但它缺乏一个单一的理论“家”。社会创新也可能有黑暗的一面，这值得仔细研究。三个案例研究说明了欧洲不同地区的社会创新过程和成果。只要有决心的行为者、地方扶持机构和总体政策协调一致，社会创新的成果就可能是可观的。社会创新虽然很少具有变革性，但已表明能够在更有限的空间环境中带来积极的社会经济和环境成果。社会创新是否会作为一种组织和能力建设概念与更既定的原则（如社区主导的地方发展，虽然不完全是社会创新，但非常相似，已经牢固地嵌入政策指导）一起生存，或者它是否会被同样模糊的新想法所取代，如智能村庄方法，这似乎是值得怀疑的。
In this paper, we explore the idea of social innovation as both a conceptual and practical means of delivering positive social, economic and environmental outcomes in marginal rural areas. Definitions are critically appraised, and the dual contemporary origins of the term social innovation (in management sciences and critical social science) are explored. There has been much conceptual confusion, in particular about the extent to which civil society agency is central or desirable in social innovation. Social innovation can be seen to be closely connected to a range of theories that inform both innovation and rural development, but it lacks a singular theoretical “home”. Social innovation can also have a dark side, which merits scrutiny. Three case studies illustrate social innovation processes and outcomes in different parts of Europe. Where committed actors, local enabling agency and overarching policies align, the outcomes of social innovations can be considerable. If rarely transformational, social innovation has shown itself capable of delivering positive socioeconomic and environmental outcomes in more bounded spatial settings. It seems questionable whether social innovation will survive as an organising and capacity-building concept alongside more established principles, such as community-led local development, which, although not exactly social innovation, is very similar and already firmly embedded in policy guidance or whether it will be replaced by new equally fuzzy ideas, such as the smart village approach.