Modes of spread in social innovation: A social topology case in rural Portugal
Summary. Social innovation spreads through rural regions via material and discursive configurations that circulate across spatial scales and territorial boundaries. Using a network of young farmers in Portugal (EPAM) as a case study, the research demonstrates that social innovation operates simultaneously as a bounded regional object and as a trans-scalar relational process where objects, subjects, and spaces reconfigure each other. Images and infrastructure prove agential in how social innovation diffuses through peripheral rural territories.
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Baxter, J.. (2021). Modes of spread in social innovation: A social topology case in rural Portugal. Journal of Rural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.04.016
Baxter, Jamie-Scott. “Modes of spread in social innovation: A social topology case in rural Portugal.” Journal of Rural Studies, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.04.016.
Baxter, Jamie-Scott. 2021. “Modes of spread in social innovation: A social topology case in rural Portugal.” Journal of Rural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.04.016.
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title = {Modes of spread in social innovation: A social topology case in rural Portugal},
author = {Jamie-Scott Baxter},
journal = {Journal of Rural Studies},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.04.016},
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- 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.04.016
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- Portugal
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- Europe
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- innovation-theory, regional-innovation-systems, entrepreneurship
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- 2026-04-28