Rural innovation Ideas for overall comparison and synthesis/WP6

1. Rural innovation Ideas for overall comparison and synthesis/WP6 Connecting and integrating the results of WP1 > WP2 > WP3-5 > WP6

2. Objectives of WP6 from TA • To synthetise the overall findings of the study by drawing together the results of the cross national analysis for particular fields of innovation (WPs 3-5), connecting that with the results of WP1 (conceptual frameworks) and WP2 (country level appraisal of innovation systems and processes), and formulating, on this basis, policy and practice recomendations.

3. Specific objectives from TA • Innovation processes and outcomes • Systems and networks • Facilitating and hampering factors • Strategic choices and technological directions • Economic incentives and financing • Innovation services and methods • Governance • Formulation of policy recommendations • Formulation of practice recommendations • Identification of research gaps • Presentation of findings at second IIFG

4. Overall comparative frame Nature of innovation WP1 WP3-5 WP6 Innovation: processes and systems WP2 WP3-5 Exits: 3Fs Problem fix Opportunity fill Model fit/design WP3-5 WP6 Recommen dations WP2 WP3-5 WP6 Theoretical conceptualisation Innovators Creativity Actor networks Clusters Markets Institutions Learning Support Policies Results Outcomes Policy Practical Research Definition Understanding Type of I. Stages: Novelty Niche Regime Landscape

5. Ideas for theoretical comparison and synthesis • Definition: Innovation iscreative combination with a purpose [of problem solving, opportunity taking, model design] • Combination of resources, activities, relationships, natural factors, socio-technical forces etc.

6. Innovation as combination (Relevant for niche formation) Evidence from Abava valley case study in Latvia (Most relevant innovation components highlighted) Commercial sphere: Marketing, commercialising innovation Outcome: Novelties Promissing solutions Implemented opportunities Sustainability trajectories Starting point: Problems Needs Pressures Opportunities Creative sphere: Innovation discourses, culture, metanarratives

7. Critical innovation forces (Relevant for novelty creation) Evidence from Abava valley case study in Latvia(Most relevant forces highlighted)

8. SOCIAL PROCESSES Self-capacity to learn, innovate, enterprise, take risks Capacity to network, cooperate, social capital Traditional and new innovation support institutions Governance, coalition building, coordination and political support Innovation processes and institutions (Relevant for regime change) Evidence from Abava valley case study in Latvia(Most relevant processes highlighted) MARKET CREATIVITY INSTITUTIONS

9. Innovation structures (Relevant for landscape transformation) New products Definitions, ideas, conceptions (private, collective, prescriptive) Economic and technical solutions Asets, resources, investment New markets Competitive situation Existing and new regulations Supply and demand Marketing and communication Consumer values and behaviour INNOVATION STRUCTURES New coordination New interactions between producers, service providers, other market actors, policy institutions, local governments, knowledge providers, control institutions, etc. New organisation: partnerships, councils, projects, associations, etc. New methods Technical Economic Intellectual (knowledge, learning) Managerial Organisational New norms Informal: mutuality, exchange, sharing, social capital, cooperation Formal micro-level: rules, codes of praxis, contracts Formal macro-level: government regulations, sanitary norms, etc.

10. Dynamics of innovation: degree of structuration Innovation forces

11. Innovation exits • Problem fix • Opportunity fill • Market • Political • Model fit – corespondence to and design of the new forms of economy

12. Changing forms of economy • Future values • Openness • Tolerance • Co-existence • Responsibility • Solidarity • Compassion • Respect • Trust • Creativity • Resources • Inovation • Excellence • Self-realisation • Entrepreneurship • Education • Knowledge • Cultural diversity • Embeddedness • Identity • Health • Environmental quality • Life • Security • Family, children • Reason Embeddedness Liberalisation Conventionalisation Mass market Globalisation of commodity chains Eco-economics Life-style economics Governance Central economic assumption Market Economic and value communities Creativity Creative economics Knowledge Authenticity Clustering of services Openness 1990 2008 2030

13. Example of food supply chains SUS-CHAIN project www.sus-chain.org Innovation

14. Future forms of rural economy?

15. Comparative theoretical assumptions & evidence • Deepened doubts about applicability of linear model in theory, ideology and practice • Innovator driven innovation; don’t loose the innovator in innovations! • Affirmation f complexity approach: actors, networks, interactions, processes, institutions • Actor networks reaffirmed • Driving force is still human capital, especially creativity; the capability argument • Social capital matters, especially cooperation • Relevance of self and social learning • Disconnectedness of institutional knowledge system • Fractured and weak AKIS • Remoteness of institutional domain from the actual innovation processes and actor networks • Structural phases model of innovation reinforced and deepened • Not all innovations change regime and landscape; only few complete the cycle • Complete cycle innovations design new models of rural economy and society

16. Methods and sources of comparison

17. Ideas for political recommendations • Need for rural development and innovation web

18. Ideas for practice recommendations

19. Ideas for research recommendations • Enlarge definition and theoretical understanding of innovation towards greater complexity