Introduction
Chapter 1: The concept of innovation applied to rural areas
- Innovation, a new solution to the problems of rural areas?
- Innovation in three directions
- A more positive general context
Chapter 2: The stages of the innovation process
- Clarifying the context
- From the creation of an innovative idea to its gradual collective appropriation
- From the innovative idea to the project
- From the project to its implementation
- Ensuring that the change is viable
- Successes and fa i l u res of the innovative pro c e s s
- Knowing how to manage conflicts to create the necessary synergies
Chapter 3: Innovation, a process of a fundamentally social nature
- Comparison of the local and the global
- The creation of new learning mechanisms
- Negotiation between actors and/or institutions
- New common references
- When the rules of the game change
- The snowball effect
Chapter 4: Three examples to illustrate the innovation process
Chapter 5: Innovation as a result
- Three types of innovative action for the area, which lead to different but interdependent results
- The development spiral
Chapter 6: Innovation and context
- Innovation in the different types of context
- Context and complexity of innovative actions
Conclusions
