This article is a systematic literature review on social innovation in inner peripheries. It
investigates what actors (who), processes (how), and topics (what) emerge from the …

In this paper, we explore the idea of social innovation as both a conceptual and practical
means of delivering positive social, economic and environmental outcomes in marginal rural …

Social innovation entered the academic discourse several decades ago and has since been
seen as a way of tackling existing problems in various contexts. Although an extensive body …

Social innovation (SI) has been championed as an integral feature of community-led rural
development. However, the choice of the term “innovation” prompts a number of questions …

Social innovation is gaining momentum in academia, policy and practice, as a process by
which local communities generate new social relations and become more capable of …

Recent international policy advocating for social innovation to be part of strategies to
promote sustainable urban development has energised this emerging body of literature …

The term “social innovation”(SI) is currently applied to denote a broad range of activities
connected to explicit goals and supposedly designed to address inherent societal problems …

Social innovation (SI) research tends to understand rural SI processes as collective
initiatives of equally engaged, supportive, and like-minded people. However, recent …

Social innovation has been understood predominantly as a local phenomenon by most of
the scholars investigating it. The emphasis on the local as the locus of social innovation and …

Within the framework of the LEADER approach to rural development applied in rural areas
of the European Union, a high degree of social innovation (SI) has been achieved with the …