Understanding, locating and supporting social and territorial innovation - A guide to renewing your approach to local development", by Mylène Thou and Pascale Vincent
Editions Chronique sociale, November 2018 - 228 Pages
Fn response to ecological, economic and social challenges, many local initiatives are emerging and developing in the territories, sometimes outside institutional frameworks. Entrepreneurial and/or citizen, individual or collective... they try to renew models and practices. In order to amplify these dynamics and include them in social and territorial innovation processes, all local development actors, professional and non-professional, whatever their context of action, need references, methods and tools.
Is the project innovative or potentially innovative? Where is it in the innovation process? What is its level of appropriation by stakeholders and users? How and with what is innovation made? What can be done to move the innovation process forward? How can I position my role in supporting the process?
Built like a journey and based on concrete examples, this book offers references on innovation in the field of local development, and numerous tools to situate oneself and guide one's action.
Mylène Thou (Cap Rural) and Pascale Vincent (Ciedel) support actors and organisations in the experimentation, analysis and exchange of innovative social practices in the territories, in France and abroad. They also contribute, based on their experiences and in partnership with local development and research actors, to the production of knowledge and know-how that they reinvest in training actions.
Preface to Laurence Barthe
