La filière laine à l’heure de l’innovation sociale. Quelles transformations dans le Massif central (France)?

This article offers a comparative analysis of three socially innovative initiatives within the sheep’s wool processing sector in the Massif Central: Pôle Laine (département of Haute-Loire), Ardelaine (département of Ardèche) and Terre de Laine (département of Puy-de-Dôme). All three of these entitie...

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Main Authors: Jean-Baptiste Grison, Pierre-Antoine Landel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut de Géographie Alpine
Series:Revue de Géographie Alpine
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rga/5957
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description This article offers a comparative analysis of three socially innovative initiatives within the sheep’s wool processing sector in the Massif Central: Pôle Laine (département of Haute-Loire), Ardelaine (département of Ardèche) and Terre de Laine (département of Puy-de-Dôme). All three of these entities have successfully achieved a three-fold anchoring: anchoring within a region, anchoring within the wool processing industry and anchoring within social innovation networks. However they differ from each other in terms of the chronology of their subsequent implementation of these anchorings; being linked to the process of constructing innovative approaches, this was achieved at different stages and in a different order. But for all three centres, introducing systemic change was only possible after anchoring in all three areas had been achieved. Consequently, there is evidence that social innovation in the wool-processing industry is a response to the crisis within this weakened sector of the economy; it also serves to boost regional dynamism in struggling and land-locked mountainous areas. Lastly, we found that these three initiatives have resulted in a diversification that is not limited to the woollen industry alone; sectoral innovation has thus resulted in the emergence of full-blown regional projects.
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spelling doaj.art-08f1f79d321c40678c144c5c6243d9ec2024-02-14T15:04:06ZengInstitut de Géographie AlpineRevue de Géographie Alpine0035-11211760-7426107210.4000/rga.5957La filière laine à l’heure de l’innovation sociale. Quelles transformations dans le Massif central (France)?Jean-Baptiste GrisonPierre-Antoine LandelThis article offers a comparative analysis of three socially innovative initiatives within the sheep’s wool processing sector in the Massif Central: Pôle Laine (département of Haute-Loire), Ardelaine (département of Ardèche) and Terre de Laine (département of Puy-de-Dôme). All three of these entities have successfully achieved a three-fold anchoring: anchoring within a region, anchoring within the wool processing industry and anchoring within social innovation networks. However they differ from each other in terms of the chronology of their subsequent implementation of these anchorings; being linked to the process of constructing innovative approaches, this was achieved at different stages and in a different order. But for all three centres, introducing systemic change was only possible after anchoring in all three areas had been achieved. Consequently, there is evidence that social innovation in the wool-processing industry is a response to the crisis within this weakened sector of the economy; it also serves to boost regional dynamism in struggling and land-locked mountainous areas. Lastly, we found that these three initiatives have resulted in a diversification that is not limited to the woollen industry alone; sectoral innovation has thus resulted in the emergence of full-blown regional projects.https://journals.openedition.org/rga/5957social innovationLocal developmentwool-processing industryregional anchoring
spellingShingle Jean-Baptiste Grison
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La filière laine à l’heure de l’innovation sociale. Quelles transformations dans le Massif central (France)?
Revue de Géographie Alpine
social innovation
Local development
wool-processing industry
regional anchoring
title La filière laine à l’heure de l’innovation sociale. Quelles transformations dans le Massif central (France)?
title_full La filière laine à l’heure de l’innovation sociale. Quelles transformations dans le Massif central (France)?
title_fullStr La filière laine à l’heure de l’innovation sociale. Quelles transformations dans le Massif central (France)?
title_full_unstemmed La filière laine à l’heure de l’innovation sociale. Quelles transformations dans le Massif central (France)?
title_short La filière laine à l’heure de l’innovation sociale. Quelles transformations dans le Massif central (France)?
title_sort la filiere laine a l heure de l innovation sociale quelles transformations dans le massif central france
topic social innovation
Local development
wool-processing industry
regional anchoring
url https://journals.openedition.org/rga/5957
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