Local System of Innovation in Economic Solidarity: embryo of territorial development processes

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the conceptual and theoretical bases of one research in progress, which evaluates the potential for developing a territory by capturing the dynamics of innovation in Solidarity-based Economy present on it. An action-research will be developed within a given community, already served by projects of social mobilization, in a city of a large metropolitan region in Brazil, which expects to contribute in the process of boosting the solidarity practices found there. The set of observations undertaken aims at first to demonstrate that the concept of social management is adequate to address, capture and understand these community dynamics and then articulate this concept with others, from different fields of knowledge, in order to build a dynamic analytical model that will be used within the later stages of research. It is undertaken that the potential for development of the territory will be as great as the  proximity between the community practices and the dynamics of innovation described in the analytical model proposed.