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REVIEW OF POLICY RESEARCH
Volume 29, Issue 6, Pages 672-692Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2012.00588.x
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social innovation; quality of life; people participation; living labs; local governance; health and medicine
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Participative processes and citizens empowerment are considered crucial aspects of social innovation (SI), involving collaborative activities between the private, public, and third sectors. This article discusses the principal trends in the literature on the concept of SI, its aims and differential characteristics related to the identification of people's needs, citizen participation processes, and improved quality of life. We present an exploratory case study of SI focusing on the gap between elderly people's needs and the generation of business opportunities, using a living lab (LL) methodology for collaborative placed-based innovation. Our results suggest that LLs are a useful instrument to detect community needs and improve local development and support and integrate technological and social innovations in policies and local governance processes.
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