European Funds at the Level of the Spanish Autonomous Communities: Is Administrative Communication Discouraging Open Innovation?
ABSTRACT: Spain is at the bottom in the absorption of European funds, and there is a need to research why. This paper starts from the idea that the problem could, among other issues, be related to the ineffectiveness of administrative communication, both in terms of transparency and dissemination. T...
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| author | Marta Martín-Llaguno María J. Vilaplana-Aparicio Isabel Gandía-Solera |
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| description | ABSTRACT: Spain is at the bottom in the absorption of European funds, and there is a need to research why. This paper starts from the idea that the problem could, among other issues, be related to the ineffectiveness of administrative communication, both in terms of transparency and dissemination. These dimensions are key for the innovation and open government principles endorsed by the better regulation initiative of the EU and have hardly been studied in this respect by academics. For the period 2021–2027, Spain will receive more than 34,692 million euros from the ERDF and ESF+ funds. The autonomous communities and cities must report on this aid based on communication plans and strategies for the operational programs. After compiling them, assessing their ease of access and analyzing some of their characteristics, such as the levels of execution of their budgets, this research analyzes how the 19 official websites inform about the ERDF and ESF. In several cases, the results point to inefficient institutional management of budgets for communication, as well as obstacles to accessing online content, which is key to transparency. The extent to which these shortcomings may be related to the lack of demand for European funding could be analyzed in future studies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a57f882286a4444f81e96af3939280be2023-12-14T05:21:23ZengElsevierJournal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity2199-85312022-09-0183124European Funds at the Level of the Spanish Autonomous Communities: Is Administrative Communication Discouraging Open Innovation?Marta Martín-Llaguno0María J. Vilaplana-Aparicio1Isabel Gandía-Solera2Correspondence:; Department of Communication and Social Psychology, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain; maria.vilaplana@ua.es (M.J.V.-A.); isabelgandia5@gmail.com (I.G.-S.)Department of Communication and Social Psychology, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain; maria.vilaplana@ua.es (M.J.V.-A.); isabelgandia5@gmail.com (I.G.-S.)Department of Communication and Social Psychology, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain; maria.vilaplana@ua.es (M.J.V.-A.); isabelgandia5@gmail.com (I.G.-S.)ABSTRACT: Spain is at the bottom in the absorption of European funds, and there is a need to research why. This paper starts from the idea that the problem could, among other issues, be related to the ineffectiveness of administrative communication, both in terms of transparency and dissemination. These dimensions are key for the innovation and open government principles endorsed by the better regulation initiative of the EU and have hardly been studied in this respect by academics. For the period 2021–2027, Spain will receive more than 34,692 million euros from the ERDF and ESF+ funds. The autonomous communities and cities must report on this aid based on communication plans and strategies for the operational programs. After compiling them, assessing their ease of access and analyzing some of their characteristics, such as the levels of execution of their budgets, this research analyzes how the 19 official websites inform about the ERDF and ESF. In several cases, the results point to inefficient institutional management of budgets for communication, as well as obstacles to accessing online content, which is key to transparency. The extent to which these shortcomings may be related to the lack of demand for European funding could be analyzed in future studies.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2199853122007259disseminationcommunicationgrantspublic fundsERDFESF |
| spellingShingle | Marta Martín-Llaguno María J. Vilaplana-Aparicio Isabel Gandía-Solera European Funds at the Level of the Spanish Autonomous Communities: Is Administrative Communication Discouraging Open Innovation? Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity dissemination communication grants public funds ERDF ESF |
| title | European Funds at the Level of the Spanish Autonomous Communities: Is Administrative Communication Discouraging Open Innovation? |
| title_full | European Funds at the Level of the Spanish Autonomous Communities: Is Administrative Communication Discouraging Open Innovation? |
| title_fullStr | European Funds at the Level of the Spanish Autonomous Communities: Is Administrative Communication Discouraging Open Innovation? |
| title_full_unstemmed | European Funds at the Level of the Spanish Autonomous Communities: Is Administrative Communication Discouraging Open Innovation? |
| title_short | European Funds at the Level of the Spanish Autonomous Communities: Is Administrative Communication Discouraging Open Innovation? |
| title_sort | european funds at the level of the spanish autonomous communities is administrative communication discouraging open innovation |
| topic | dissemination communication grants public funds ERDF ESF |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2199853122007259 |
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