Social innovations on municipal level in Slovakia
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | The 2014 EGPA Annual Conference |
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| Field | Management and administrative |
| Keywords | LIPSE 7FP project ; social innovations; municipality; Slovakia |
| Description | As the part of LIPSE 7FP project our group of researchers from Matej Bel University searched for innovative examples of co-creation on the local government level in Slovakia in two areas – social welfare and rural/urban regeneration. According to theories of decentralization (see for example summary in Bailey, 1999), local governments that are closest to citizen are expected to serve to local needs. This should mean that in the area of social innovations local self-governments are the level, where a lot of co-creative innovations happen. To obtain as comprehensive information about co-creation on the local government level in Slovakia we realized the document analysis of relevant policy documents, databases and websites and conducted interviews with various experts on co-creation processes during public innovation. On this base we were able to indentify expected ten co-creation projects on local level (five in welfare area and five in regeneration area), but this list is close to the full enumeration of existing co-creation based innovations on given level in Slovakia. The goal of this paper is to introduce co-creative innovations, but especially to try to define purposes, why co-creation is not common practice in Slovakia and particularly why local government willingness to participate in co-creation projects is rather limited. |