Rural innovation activities as a means for changing development perspectives – An assessment of more than two decades of promoting LEADER initiatives across the European Union
Summary. The LEADER approach has mobilized rural actors across the European Union since the 1990s by activating local stakeholders and leveraging endogenous potential. After integrating LEADER into EU Rural Development Programmes in 2007, implementation became mainstream but highly diverse. The paper synthesizes 25 years of European experience, focusing on Austria, finding that LEADER's main impact lies in generating learning processes and improving local governance through stakeholder involvement, rather than in quantitative measures alone.
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Dax, T., Oedl-Wieser, T., Thomas, D., & Theresia, O.. (2016). Rural innovation activities as a means for changing development perspectives – An assessment of more than two decades of promoting LEADER initiatives across the European Union. Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.234971
Dax, Thomas, et al. “Rural innovation activities as a means for changing development perspectives – An assessment of more than two decades of promoting LEADER initiatives across the European Union.” Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), 2016. https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.234971.
Dax, Thomas, T. Oedl-Wieser, Dax, Thomas, and Oedl-Wieser, Theresia. 2016. “Rural innovation activities as a means for changing development perspectives – An assessment of more than two decades of promoting LEADER initiatives across the European Union.” Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.234971.
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- 10.22004/ag.econ.234971
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- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
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- Europe
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- regional-innovation-systems, policy
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