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Towards a social innovation (SI) based epistemology in local development analysis: lessons from twenty years of EU research

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  • Frank Moulaert
  • Abid Mehmood

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This paper gives an overview of over two decades of research projects on the study of the relationship between local development and social innovation (SI) made by the international action research network coordinated by the first author and funded by the European Commission. It explains the need to study the relationships between local development and opportunities for human development, and the aspirations for an epistemological turn, away from local growth to local development, and from disciplinary to inter- and trans-disciplinary perspectives. Using a chronological overview, the paper concentrates on questions related to the specific objectives of the projects and their epistemological (ontological, theoretical, methodological and validation) challenges. It explains how by meeting these challenges, over the years the network built a Social Innovation Action Research framework that can now be used as a reference for mutual enrichment between different approaches in SI action research.

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  • Frank Moulaert & Abid Mehmood, 2020. "Towards a social innovation (SI) based epistemology in local development analysis: lessons from twenty years of EU research," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(3), pages 434-453, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:28:y:2020:i:3:p:434-453
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2019.1639401
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