Abstract

Social innovation is conceptualised as having two intimately related pillars: institutional innovation and locally embedded innovation, in the sense of social economy. Two main research questions were addressed: how political, institutional innovation is fostered and how does it influence social economy? A mixed methods research was conducted in the Mühlviertel NUTS3 region. Despite a framework of enhanced autonomy and institutional innovation for the main stakeholders, both macro and micro analysis illustrate a lack of intermediate space to: a) link the innovative agenda to high-state political agendas, and b) link institutional innovation to social economy.

摘要

在社会经济的意义上，社会创新被概念化为具有两个密切相关的支柱：制度创新和本地嵌入创新。解决了两个主要研究问题：如何促进政治、制度创新以及它如何影响社会经济？在 Mühlviertel NUTS3 地区进行了一项混合方法研究。尽管主要利益相关者的自主权和制度创新的框架得到加强，但宏观和微观分析都表明缺乏中间空间：a) 将创新议程与高层政治议程联系起来，以及 b) 将制度创新与社会经济联系起来。