The social economy for rural development in the local-open innovation system: a case study for Townway in Ju-Shan
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Wang, Wei-Kang
Abstract
This paper is a case study focuses on Townway, a social economic organization (SEO) which launched an open-innovation platform “Share bank” to build up the relationships of internal and external groups/individuals and improve the development in Ju-Shan. It argues that the problem of the rural recession can be better resolved in the local innovation system. Since the 1990s, the frequent global economic crises have brought about the rise of the Third Sector, which aims for addressing the social problems and bringing the social innovation to the SEOs from the bottom-up forces.
In Taiwan, rural development, which seeks to empower individuals and groups of people by providing them with the skills they need and utilize local resources to improve their own communities effectively, is a common way/scale for the SEOs to promote their concepts through the traditional market mechanism. However, the local resources should be well identified, regulated, and linked with external networks to make the rural community develops in a more sustainable way. In the view of this, many SEOs have started to address the social problem through an innovative model and bring an alternative, systematic way of rural development.
A preferred innovative model should identify and strengthen the resource network and rural development in the local innovation system. Following Gibson-Graham, this paper illustrate the alternative rural development with local resources identification, social innovation process, and internal/external social network linkages in the examples of a deprived community in central Taiwan.
Subjects
鄉村發展
社會經濟
社會創新
地方開放創新系統
創造共享價值
Type
thesis
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