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- Title
Participatory Democracy as a Favourable Context for Social Innovation. Evidence from the European Union.
- Authors
STOICA, Mihnea S.
- Abstract
While innovation has evolved into a common concept for quite a few decades now, especially given the need for new forms of development that require technology transfer and creativity mechanisms, less so is the case of social innovation. The latter remains a rather controversial concept, caught between two extremes: some authors consider it to be useless for academic research given its vagueness, while others point to its sacrosanctity given the need for new ways of societal and political development. Knowledge-creation, idea generation and openness are mechanisms that any type of innovation relies upon. However, social innovation takes these concepts one step further and seeks to become a driving force for institutional change, therefore strongly linked with how liberal democracy works. The current paper aims to look at how social innovation is linked to the participative component of liberal democracy by looking at case studies from the European Union.
- Subjects
EUROPEAN Union; SOCIAL innovation; PARTICIPATORY democracy; SOCIAL context; TECHNOLOGY transfer; POLITICAL development; CREATIVE ability
- Publication
Postmodern Openings / Deschideri Postmoderne, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 1, p16
- ISSN
2068-0236
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18662/po/14.1/601