Innowacje i innowacyjność lokalna w ponadlokalnej perspektywie zarządzania strategicznego rozwojem lokalnym małych miast
Innovations and local innovativeness in supra-local perspective of local development strategic governance of small towns

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the research results whose aim is to identify how local authorities of Polish small towns perceive and form at the strategic level, these supra-local relations of their cities, which are connected with innovations and local innovativeness. The research was conducted in 2014 using diagnostic survey and content analysis methods. In addition, the results of participant observations, conducted in 2010-2014, were used. In the initial part of the article key categories of research field are explained, such as local development in both perspectives, innovations and their role in local development, local innovativeness, supra-local relations of local system, local development governance, local development strategic governance and its supra-local perspective. The next part presents rationale, objects, goals, questions, methods and techniques of research and useds sources of information. Then the results of the studies are presented, dividing them into 4 parts, corresponding to different types of supra-local relations of local systems and activities for their prodevelopmental formation. The article concludes with findings and recommendations for changes of local and supra-local policies which will popularize and simplify pro-innovative shaping of supra-local relations of small towns.

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