Challenges of impact assessment in Social Innovation: A qualitative study from two European rural regions

ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Marina Novikova · 2021 · European Public & Social Innovation Review

Summary. Social innovation initiatives in rural Austria and Portugal struggle to assess their impacts despite recognizing its importance. Local development organizations face conceptual and practical challenges in measuring outcomes because no uniform assessment method exists. The study reveals tensions between different approaches to impact evaluation and difficulties in determining what counts as impact across different levels of analysis.

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  title   = {Challenges of impact assessment in Social Innovation: A qualitative study from two European rural regions},
  author  = {ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and Marina Novikova},
  journal = {European Public & Social Innovation Review},
  year    = {2021},
  doi     = {10.31637/epsir.21-2.3},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.31637/epsir.21-2.3}
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DOI

10.31637/epsir.21-2.3

Countries

Austria, Portugal

Regions

Europe

Categories

innovation-theory, regional-innovation-systems

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2026-04-28