Diagnoses and Prescriptions on the Social Innovation in Public Bureaucracy of Local Governments: The Criticism of Entrepreneurs of Civil Society in Busan Metropolitan Area

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-388
Author(s):  
Chang-Soo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Bureaucracy

scholarly journals Repensando os Estudos Fronteiriços: Participação e Inovação Social no Desenvolvimento das Zonas de Fronteiras

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (99) ◽  
pp. 860-887
Author(s):  
Anderson Luís do Espírito Santo ◽  
Douglas Voks
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Living Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Frontier Studies ◽  
Environmental Inequalities

Abstract The study of emerging forms of public engagement and collective action is crucial for understanding the ongoing democratic dynamics, citizenship, and the constitution of the city's public problems. To recognize how the field of frontier studies is inseparable from the processes of experience of actors, this study focuses on the importance of the social innovation ecosystem (SIE) for the development of frontier zones. Specifically, this study revisits the main instruments of public management and border development policies to emphasize figures of civil society and their collective mobilizations on the Brazil-Bolivia border, recognizing social innovation initiatives and the main challenges they seek to solve. This path of public investigation allowed us to understand the territorial dimension of borders and expand their meaning as a living space by giving light to the actors' practices, identifying how they mobilize to repair socio-environmental inequalities.

Collaborative Counties: Questioning the Role of Civil Society

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph T. Campbell ◽  
Linda M. Lobao ◽  
Michael R. Betz
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
The United States ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
County Governments ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
Collaborative Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Citizen Group

Local governments face increased pressure to collaborate with one another to provide services aimed at increasing economic development. While scholars and practitioners share interest in intergovernmental collaboration, past studies have rarely questioned the role of civil society. Based on the social capital literature, a robust local civil society with high rates of volunteerism and civic engagement should facilitate local government cooperation. Using unique primary data from county governments across the United States, the authors question the degree to which local civil society influences collaborative behavior. The authors further contrast civil society’s influence relative to that of private business interests. This study provides modest evidence for the role of civil society. Rather, the findings suggest that collaboration is greatest where business involvement in development is higher and public participation tends toward more “token” policies (i.e., citizen input mechanisms) rather than organized, citizen group involvement in decision making.

scholarly journals ‘From Sanctuary to Welcoming Cities’: Negotiating the Social Inclusion of Undocumented Migrants in Liège, Belgium

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 90-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sébastien Lambert ◽  
Thomas Swerts
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
Undocumented Migrants ◽  
Immigrant Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sans Papiers ◽  
National Governments

Cities have become important sites of sanctuary for migrants with a precarious legal status. While many national governments in Europe have adopted restrictive immigration policies, urban governments have undertaken measures to safeguard undocumented residents’ rights. Existing scholarship on sanctuary cities has mostly focused on how cities’ stance against federal immigration policies can be interpreted as urban citizenship. What is largely missing in these debates, however, is a better insight into the role that local civil society actors play in pushing for sanctuary and negotiating the terms of social in- and exclusion. In this article, we rely on a qualitative study of the 2017 Sanctuary City campaign in Liège, Belgium, to argue that power relations between (and among) civil society actors and city officials help to explain why the meaning and inclusiveness of ‘sanctuary’ shifted over time. Initially, radical activists were able to politicize the issue by demanding the social inclusion of the ‘sans-papiers’ through grassroots mobilization. However, the cooptation of the campaign by immigrant rights organizations led to the adoption of a motion wherein the local government depicted the city as a ‘welcoming’ instead of a ‘sanctuary’ city. By showing how immigrant rights professionals sidelined radical activists during the campaign, we highlight the risk of depoliticization when civil society actors decide to cooperate with local governments to extend immigrant rights. We also underline the potential representational gap that emerges when those who are directly implicated, namely undocumented migrants, are not actively involved in campaigns that aim to improve their inclusion.

scholarly journals The Quebec system of social innovation: a focused analysis on the local development field

Finisterra ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (94) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan-Luis Klein ◽  
Jean-Marc Fontan ◽  
Denis Harrisson ◽  
Benoît Lévesque
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Consensus Building ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
The Social

This article shows the components of a system of social innovation based on collaboration and consensus building between a plurality of actors and economic logics. The social innovation system of Quebec features new combinations, approaches, ways of coordination and governance in which social economy and civil society play an important role. Participative governance, co-production of services, co-construction of public policies, as well as the plural character of the economy represent important aspects of this system. This article addresses the territorial dimensions of what could be called the Quebec model of social innovation.

scholarly journals Elements for a Creative City: An Analysis of Kortrijk, Belgium

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-128
Author(s):  
Lenice Eli Lunkes Scarpato ◽  
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Mary Sandra Guerra Ashton ◽  
Dusan Schreiber ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Private Initiative ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Creative Cities ◽  
Creative City ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

This article focuses on the case of the city of Kortrijk, Belgium, which in 2017 received the title of Creative City of Design from Unesco, especially the MyMachine, SPEK, and 5X5® Projects. The objective was to identify the main elements responsible for winning the title. To meet this objective, we opted for descriptive exploratory research, through bibliographic research. Among the results, it was possible to show that the city has come over the years, developing socially and economically based on its actions and strategies in the design and education, creative projects, and entrepreneurship, even long before being part of Unesco's World Network of Creative Cities. It was observed that Kortrjik has a driving role, mainly because it manages to create an innovation ecosystem with all the social actors involved in this process, highlighting the MyMachine, SPEK and 5X5® Projects, articulated with governmental, private initiative and civil society, giving the city a potential for relevant social innovation.

scholarly journals INSTITUTIONAL PROVISION OF SOCIAL INNOVATIONS IN THE CONDITIONS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 1(13) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
J.V. Buy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
National Level ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Social Innovations

The article considers the main forms of social security and social guarantees at the national level, in accordance with the current legislative and regulatory support, state target programs and existing infrastructure. The aim of the article is to represent modern directions of institutional support of social innovations for balanced development of social and economic systems. It has been determined that one of the main directions that contribute to the processes of generation, production and dissemination of social innovations is the institutional support of innovation. Accordingly, the basic bases of state support for these processes are ensuring the institutional development of innovation infrastructure and the interaction of civil society with state and regional authorities and local governments. The coordination of the activity of the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine by areas of activity, the most significant world tendencies of support of social innovations and institutional support of social innovations by leading educational institutions through the implementation of educational programs have been analyzed. It has been established that a necessary prerequisite for intensifying social development and implementation of social innovations is institutional support at the national level, which will coordinate the implementation of social initiatives, which can be further produced as social innovations. Therefore, the imperatives for the development of the social component are social innovations, which are characterized by non-standard, but effective solutions to social problems, the priority of which is the social (qualitative) rather than economic (financial) effect. The diversity of social activities of the Ministry of Social Policy and the diversity of ways of its interaction with civil society, but program-targeted conceptual areas, measures and programs to promote social innovation at the national, regional and local levels are currently absent, but the main interest in a wide range manifestations of social innovations and opportunities to raise funds for their financing belong to the initiatives of non-governmental organizations and social entrepreneurship. Accordingly, the main institutional structure that can provide support for the generation, production and dissemination of social innovations is the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, respectively, at the regional level, such structures may be local state administrations. Key words: innovative activity, innovations, social innovations, sustainable development, institutional support, social and economic system.

scholarly journals Microregional convergence through social innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (Special Issue Nr. 1) ◽  
pp. 49-63
Author(s):  
Mariann Veresné Somosi ◽  
Krisztina Varga
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Negative Judgment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

The national and international literature pays increasing attention to the research of social innovation and its impacts. Among the areas to be examined, we deal with the issues of measurability within the framework of the study. The conceptualization of social innovation, the determination of the logic of the social innovation process and the definiton of its measurement levels, and modeling based on empirical research are relevant challenges. However, the different sources dealing with the topic examine these issues in a different approach. The purpose of the study is to investigate the social innovation endeavours of a district to be developed by a complex program. Nyírbátor District includes disadvantaged settlements that are facing numerous problems due to their peripheral position. The challenges of the area (migration, ageing, unemployment and scarce financial resources) mean doubly disadvantageous stigmatization for these settlements. On the one hand, they mean an external negative judgment, and on the other hand, an internal stigmatization processes of local inhabitants, which require the exact identification of local needs and the involvement of the inhabitants in decisions. One of the tools of such initiatives can be social innovation, and also the support of social innovation endeavours. Within the framework of the research, we examine social innovation as a process of creative cooperation, during which we pay special attention to the analysis of social initiatives supported by local governments. The social innovation endeavours presented in the framework of the study are multi-stakeholder initiatives based on the involvement of the local population.. Their good practice analysis makes it possible to map the process of social innovation. The purpose of this study is to present the points of focus that serve as potential activating factors for the endeavours in the case of Nyírbátor District. The examined cases play a significant role in managing the unfavourable processes of the area, and their adaptation as best practices can support the process of catching up. The study also defines the main sets of criteria which, in addition to providing a structured record of individual case studies, help to compare good practices.

Regional Disparities of the Social Innovation Potential in the Visegrad Countries: Causes and Consequences

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
György Kocziszky ◽  
Dóra Szendi
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Technical Innovation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
Complex Character ◽  
Innovation Potential ◽  
The Social ◽  
Territorial Disparities ◽  
Active Contribution ◽  
Visegrád Countries

Abstract The international literature is paying significant and increasing attention to the analysis of the regions’ innovation potential, and its active contribution to economic growth and competitiveness. Beside the classical, technical innovation, also the social innovation is getting even more emphasis. It can solve as alternative basically in the case of the peripheral territories. The convergence of peripheries is a stressed priority in the European Union. The territorial disparities are resulting in significant social and political problems also in the case of the Visegrad countries’ regions. The authors in their research represent a possible method for the measurement of regional (NUTS-2) level social innovation potential on the example of the Visegrad countries, and they also analyse the causes and consequences of disparities. The applied complex social innovation index can be calculated as a result of three pillars (economic, social, culture and attitude), and several components. As a result of the created patterns can be concluded that compared to the economic indicators, the disadvantage of the peripheries is not so significant in the case of the social innovation index, because of the complex character of the index. In the second part of the research, the authors analyse and evaluate also the methods, which can be adequate for increasing the social innovation potential.

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