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- Title: Social Dynamics of Innovation and Civic Engagement in City Regions (Case Study)
- Author : Canadian Journal of Regional Science
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 97 KB
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Innovation and creative capacity are essential determinants of economic prosperity in a globalizing, knowledge-based economy. The interactive and social nature of the innovation process makes city-regions the appropriate scale at which social learning processes unfold. Growing recognition of this fact has led a growing number of urban regions to take control of their own economic future through efforts aimed at the 'strategic management' of their own economies. Drawing on recent initiatives in several Ontario cities, which build on local civic engagement, this paper suggests that this new approach to economic development provides an important illustration of how social innovation at the urban scale can help chart new economic trajectories. Villes-regions: Dynamique sociale de l'innovation et Societe civile. Dans le contexte globalisant de l'economie du savoir, la capacite d'innovation et de creativite apparait comme un element determinant de la performance economique. La nature, a la fois interactive et sociale, de l'innovation conjuguee a l'echelle de la ville-region permet la mise en place de processus d'apprentissage social interessants. De plus en plus reconnu, ce phenomene a amene plusieurs regions urbaines a prendre en mains leur developpement economique par des actions visant dorenavant une gestion strategique de leur propre economie. A partir d'initiatives recentes observees dans quelques villes ontariennes, lesquelles ont mise sur l'engagement local des citoyens, cet article propose que cette nouvelle approche du developpement economique offre une illustration eloquente du lien qui existe entre l'innovation sociale a l'echelle de la ville-region et la performance economique.