IL NETWORKING COME STRUMENTO MULTI SCOPO PER LE ORGANIZZAZIONI INNOVATIVE NELLE AREE RURALI

This paper builds on the findings of a survey to the innovative organizations located in Portuguese rural areas. This survey has been underlined and applied in the context of the project RUR@L INOV. The paper has two goals: to explore how networking is used by rural-based organizations and, second,...

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Main Authors: Lívia Madureira, Teresa Gamito, Dora Ferreira
Format: Article
Language:Italian
Published: "Mediterranea" University of Reggio Calabria 2015-12-01
Series:LaborEst
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Online Access:http://pkp.unirc.it/ojs/index.php/LaborEst/article/view/83
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Teresa Gamito
Dora Ferreira
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description This paper builds on the findings of a survey to the innovative organizations located in Portuguese rural areas. This survey has been underlined and applied in the context of the project RUR@L INOV. The paper has two goals: to explore how networking is used by rural-based organizations and, second, to discuss how networking could be promoted by public policy to boost collaborative innovation. The evidence presented and discussed indicates that networking is used by rural-based innovators as a multi-purposed tool including the establishment of networks to obtain scale/scope effects and/or access local, mostly intangible, resources of rural areas. However, conventional innovation networks, usually led by R&D units or top-associations don’t appear as a significant resource for most of the innovators. Probably, due to the organizations smallness, the high qualification of innovation leaders, together with their entrepreneurial attitude, these innovators search for knowledge and other resources by their own means and initiative. Nevertheless, this entrepreneurial attitude towards knowledge, information and skills demand could be shared by other, both existing organizations and new-entrants in the rural economies, through new networking models led by the innovators.
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spelling doaj.art-e26b567a29874e6f8ec2cc8cccc38b3d2022-12-22T02:12:03Zita"Mediterranea" University of Reggio CalabriaLaborEst1973-76882421-31872015-12-0111384210.19254/LaborEst.11.06IL NETWORKING COME STRUMENTO MULTI SCOPO PER LE ORGANIZZAZIONI INNOVATIVE NELLE AREE RURALILívia Madureira0Teresa Gamito1Dora Ferreira2Università di Trás-os-Montes e Alto DouroUniversità di LisbonaCETRAD - Centre for Transdisciplinary Development StudiesThis paper builds on the findings of a survey to the innovative organizations located in Portuguese rural areas. This survey has been underlined and applied in the context of the project RUR@L INOV. The paper has two goals: to explore how networking is used by rural-based organizations and, second, to discuss how networking could be promoted by public policy to boost collaborative innovation. The evidence presented and discussed indicates that networking is used by rural-based innovators as a multi-purposed tool including the establishment of networks to obtain scale/scope effects and/or access local, mostly intangible, resources of rural areas. However, conventional innovation networks, usually led by R&D units or top-associations don’t appear as a significant resource for most of the innovators. Probably, due to the organizations smallness, the high qualification of innovation leaders, together with their entrepreneurial attitude, these innovators search for knowledge and other resources by their own means and initiative. Nevertheless, this entrepreneurial attitude towards knowledge, information and skills demand could be shared by other, both existing organizations and new-entrants in the rural economies, through new networking models led by the innovators.http://pkp.unirc.it/ojs/index.php/LaborEst/article/view/83InnovationNetworkingNetworking innovationHidden innovationRural areas
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IL NETWORKING COME STRUMENTO MULTI SCOPO PER LE ORGANIZZAZIONI INNOVATIVE NELLE AREE RURALI
LaborEst
Innovation
Networking
Networking innovation
Hidden innovation
Rural areas
title IL NETWORKING COME STRUMENTO MULTI SCOPO PER LE ORGANIZZAZIONI INNOVATIVE NELLE AREE RURALI
title_full IL NETWORKING COME STRUMENTO MULTI SCOPO PER LE ORGANIZZAZIONI INNOVATIVE NELLE AREE RURALI
title_fullStr IL NETWORKING COME STRUMENTO MULTI SCOPO PER LE ORGANIZZAZIONI INNOVATIVE NELLE AREE RURALI
title_full_unstemmed IL NETWORKING COME STRUMENTO MULTI SCOPO PER LE ORGANIZZAZIONI INNOVATIVE NELLE AREE RURALI
title_short IL NETWORKING COME STRUMENTO MULTI SCOPO PER LE ORGANIZZAZIONI INNOVATIVE NELLE AREE RURALI
title_sort il networking come strumento multi scopo per le organizzazioni innovative nelle aree rurali
topic Innovation
Networking
Networking innovation
Hidden innovation
Rural areas
url http://pkp.unirc.it/ojs/index.php/LaborEst/article/view/83
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