@article{Zajda:344907,
      recid = {344907},
      author = {Zajda, Catherine},
      title = {Social innovations and the involvement of rural residents  in the process of its renewal},
      journal = {Wieś i Rolnictwo},
      address = {2023-10-27},
      number = {2540-2024-3650},
      month = {Oct},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {One of the goals of village renewal is to involve  residents in the process of its transformation. Its  implementation can be supported not only by projects  financed (in recent years) from the funds of individual  Rural Development Programs, but also by others, including  those that can be described as social innovations. The aim  of the article was to show the relationship between the  implementation of social innovations by rural public  institutions and the implementation of such a defined goal  of village renewal. The text presents selected results of a  study conducted on a random sample of 330 public  institutions from rural communes. Two questions were asked.  Were those institutions that implemented social innovations  distinguished by a higher level of involving residents in  the implementation of actions taken to solve social  problems affecting them? What did their involvement in the  implementation of social innovations consist of? Empirical  data obtained through the implementation of an online  survey and two examples of social innovations (identified  through free-form interviews with representatives of public  institutions) were analyzed. Institutions that implemented  social innovations were characterized by a higher level of  involving residents of the commune in actions to solve  social problems affecting them. They involved residents in  various stages of implementing innovation, going beyond the  model of providing a service and residents being only  recipients. Social innovations contributed to the goal of  village renewal, which is to involve residents in the  process of solving social problems.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/344907},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.344907},
}