A research paper on rural innovation has found that innovation seems to be “particularly common in food production, as well as in the environmental and energy sectors.” It goes on to note that “these projects tend to rely more heavily on large networks, in which the presence of public actors is often critical.”
The research, published in the Journal of Rural Studies (2014), analysed a number of innovation projects in several European rural areas to assess the projects’ contributions and the role played by stakeholders.
