NOVÁ ETAPA VO VÝVOJI INŠTITUCIONALIZÁCIE INOVAČNÝCH PROCESOV: GRASSROOTS INOVÁCIE
A NEW STAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE PROCESSES: THE GRASSROOTS

Author(s): Michal Hrivnák, Katarína Melichová, Oľga Roháčiková
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: grassroots innovation; institutional environment; social economy; third sector;
Summary/Abstract: A simple sectoral division of socio-economic actors into four basic sectors is no longer enough today. With the liberalization of social processes and the growth of the dynamics of innovative and creative communities, new, often inter-sectoral, in terms of institutional form hybrid, community (bottom-up) projects and organizations based around concrete innovative projects, can be observed in the conditions of both developed and developing countries. This projects can through new solutions and the pressure to shift the social change, facilitate the mitigation of specific local sectoral and cross-sectoral problems, or partially contribute to solving global challenges by activating the interest of local society. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the existing approaches to the definition of the institutional unit "grassroot" innovation and to define the basic conceptual framework for their further research. The results of the synthesis of foreign knowledge suggest that the considerable heterogeneity of grassrots innovations requires the study of this phenomenon at the multi-disciplinary level, while it is necessary to clearly define them and systematically monitor them at the level of state authorities

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