Bucio-Mendoza Saray, Solis-Navarrete José Alberto
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo - Facultad de Arquitectura, México.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, México.
Heliyon. 2024 Oct 18;10(20):e39556. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e39556. eCollection 2024 Oct 30.
Most social innovation research in scientific literature focuses on cases in the Global North, where basic needs have already been met. However, examining the Global South, where institutional failures and gaps pose a more complex challenge and require innovative solutions to promote territorial development, is crucial. Our study analyses how social innovation with territorial impact has been institutionalised in Global South countries, contrasting these experiences with Global North countries. The most pressing needs addressed by social innovation in the Global South are food, poverty and health, with a higher emphasis on service and process innovations. These innovations create socio-environmental value through governance processes and attention to basic needs, particularly in rural and peri-urban areas. The various experiences in institutionalising social innovation in the Global South have given rise to multi-faceted innovation referred to as territorial-institutional innovations in contrast to the Global North, combining bottom-up and top-down approaches to institutionalising social innovation through governance structures and policy support to promoting territorial development.
科学文献中的大多数社会创新研究都聚焦于北半球的案例，那里基本需求已得到满足。然而，审视南半球的情况至关重要，在南半球，制度失灵和差距带来了更为复杂的挑战，需要创新性解决方案来促进区域发展。我们的研究分析了具有区域影响力的社会创新在南半球国家是如何制度化的，并将这些经验与北半球国家进行对比。南半球社会创新所应对的最紧迫需求包括食物、贫困和健康，且更侧重于服务和流程创新。这些创新通过治理过程和对基本需求的关注创造社会环境价值，特别是在农村和城市周边地区。与北半球不同，南半球在将社会创新制度化方面的各种经验催生了多方面的创新，即所谓的区域-制度创新，通过治理结构和政策支持，将自下而上和自上而下的方法结合起来，以实现社会创新的制度化，从而促进区域发展。
