Conceptualizing community innovation

The socioeconomic environment of today represents a complex mix of technologies, ideas, and collaboration. New horizons and opportunities are opening up thanks to the incredible flow of innovation that is born from the unification of different sources in innovative communities. These innovative communities prove to be particularly valuable for development of the territorial ones, as they contribute to solving complex problems, creating new opportunities, and supporting growth. Innovation communities as counterparts of territorial communities are platforms where diverse individuals, entrepreneurs, professionals, academics, activists, and other stakeholders pool their knowledge, expertise, and resources to jointly find solutions to current challenges and make a positive impact on their environment. Such communities can provide a wide range of activities, such as technological development, social initiatives, environmental protection, education, and culture. In light of the above, innovation communities as counterparts of territorial communities turn out to be an extremely important tool for creating a positive impact on society. At the same time, the potential of innovative communities remains insufficiently studied and disclosed from the standpoint of the development of territorial communities. The purpose of the study is to review the main theories of innovative communities and determine their potential for the development of territorial communities. The study analyzes the main theories of innovation communities, which explore the processes of cooperation and innovative development. These theories help to understand various aspects of innovative communities and networks, the dynamics of their development and the factors influencing their effectiveness. Each of these theories has its own characteristics and can be used to analyze and develop innovation processes in different contexts. It is determined that innovative communities can have a variety of effects that contribute to innovative development and achievement of community goals. It is determined that theories of innovation communities are important for understanding, describing and practical application of the processes taking place in innovation communities. They provide a framework for analyzing and managing the dynamics of such communities, helping to understand how they are formed, function, and affect the development of a territorial community. Overall, innovation community theories play an important role in understanding and facilitating the development of innovation processes and communities, as they provide an analytical framework that helps to better understand the complex relationships and dynamics in innovation communities, which in turn contributes to the creation of more resilient and successful innovation ecosystems.

This study investigates the characteristics of social innovation in the community of São Vicente, which benefits from the Community Development and Integration Program, situated in the micro-region of Serra da Meruoca in the Brazilian state of Ceará. To accomplish this, we have conducted a field study along the lines of the technical model used by Tardif and Harrisson (2005), adopting a qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews and direct observations as well as a field diary along with documental analysis. The results make it possible to explore the five analysis categories present in the theoretical model used: (i) transformations; (ii) innovative character; (iii) innovation; (iv) actors and (v) processes. The analyses corroborate the nature of social innovation associated with the development of this community. On the other hand, the processes need to be more professional and formalized, and also should reduce their financial dependence on public bodies.

In the conditions of decentralization and changes in the social paradigm, creating unique breakthrough ideas regarding transforming the region into an innovative territory is of particular importance. Innovative communities have a unique potential in these conditions – a new type of relationship between the government, business, and civil society. However, in transformational and crisis societies, the creation and development of innovative communities are associated with a significant range of problems that need to be solved. A significant part of these problems has socio-psychological reasons, which often lead to destructive actions, significantly reducing the potential of innovative communities. The study aims to determine the socio-psychological reasons for the destructive aspects of the development of innovative communities at the local level and to develop proposals for increasing the effectiveness of the innovative communities’ development at the local level, considering the potential of using the archetypal methodology. The research goals are also to determine the factors of implementing innovation models in communities and to focus on overcoming problematic aspects in this field. Modern approaches to the definition of innovations were considered to determine the features of the development of innovative communities. It has been determined that innovation is a social process; therefore, the most crucial thing for innovation is to create an appropriate innovation climate based on safety and trust, in which people feel involved and are not afraid to express new ideas. This is especially important since innovations, especially the most radical and systemic, relate to the need to go against orthodox opinions to offer other forms of work and cooperation. Therefore, when managing innovative processes, it is necessary to consider the factor of human behaviour and understand how to encourage people to show initiative, put forward new ideas, and motivate and encourage their implementation. It is substantiated that it is vital for the public administration field that innovation’s success depends not only on the manager’s role in the process but primarily on the performers and participants (human resources). In this regard, the innovative community as a new form of organizational development is one of the most positive in innovation. It was determined that innovative communities could unite a wide range of stakeholders and be divided according to geographical or thematic principles. Community members freely share knowledge, resulting in new approaches, ideas, and talent retention and development. People are kept together only by a sense of involvement in collective experience and knowledge, a sincere desire to maintain relationships, and mutual obligations remain. Innovative communities, when they unite individuals and entire teams, can implement large-scale innovative projects. It is shown that any innovative community is formed on a specific basis. It is based on individual or collective creativity, ambition, spirit, and intellectual history of the place (heredity, archetypes). Ambition, spirit, and intelligence presuppose risk-taking ability and a track record in management. Only after the emergence of this combination of economic, resource and management factors, such as business incubation, project financing, creation of intensive horizontal connections between all participants, infrastructure, etc., are involved. From the point of view of destructive behaviour, the peculiarities of the innovation process are considered. It is also shown that innovation is a positive process according to the generally accepted position. Still, it is necessary to remember the other side, that innovation is a forced measure necessary to maintain or respond to changes. It is substantiated that it is necessary to agree on the scope of application and the duration of their existence to eliminate the factors of destructive behaviour when creating innovative communities. It has been determined that one of the leading causes of destructive actions within innovative communities is excessively rigid expectations, an excessive degree of subjective certainty that exceeds objective predictability.

Chinese government has timely put forward a series of methods and judgments on technological innovation, faced with various challenges and problems in both externally and internally fields. It is emphasized that both the formation and development of new driving forces and the transformation and improvement of old driving forces stem from industry-university-research cooperation, which is an interconnected, interdependent, and internally integrated organic system, utilizing the power of financial capital and technological services to transform and apply science and technology, forming a new economy and new development. Guided by the national innovation driven development strategy, this paper conducted deep research on the innovative development community and demonstration model experiences. Through literature review, enterprise research, on-site interviews, and other methods, this paper gained a deep understanding of the participating entities of the innovation community, the roles and tasks undertaken by each entity, and the collaborative relationships among them. This paper focuses on studying the advantages and disadvantages of technological development and innovation in Weifang, summarizes the influencing factors of Weifang innovation community, introduces the triple helix theory, Schumpeter's innovation theory, and innovation community theory to construct the integrated innovation ecological development path in Weifang, summarizes evaluation indicators for innovation communities to build an innovation driven development model, and provides theoretical basis and policy recommendations for the government to scientifically formulate development plans and policies for the innovation community.

The viability of the socioeconomic environment directly depends on the level of development, quality and reliability of infrastructure. In these circumstances, the role of self-organization of communities is growing, which requires, on the one hand, reasonable prioritization in the social spheres and development of infrastructure of life activities, etc. (consistent with the goals and objectives of the development strategy), and on the other hand, assessment of the own and the potential sources of ensuring the implementation of these priorities, which can be made through the development of self-sufficient innovative communities. The aim of the study is to determine the substantial content of the infrastructure and service methodology and its potential in the context of post-war recovery. The infrastructure and service approach involves maximum satisfaction of human needs and requests, as well as the creation of conditions for work and life, and is focused on meeting the needs of the community through attracting and retaining human resources through the development of services and infrastructure. The infrastructure and service approach is focused on adapting the management of the development of innovative communities to the problems of sustainable development as such, which opens up opportunities for studying promising organizational and economic mechanisms for managing service orientation, based on assessing the impact of status changes as a result of military hostilities in the economic space and its effects on the quality of life, living space and human capital. The methodology of the infrastructure and service approach is based on the ideas of the geography of innovations, combining the methods of economic geography, regional economy and innovatics and explores the spatial patterns of creation, implementation and dissemination of new ideas, technologies, products, as well as the impact of these processes on regional (local) development. From these positions, the infrastructure and service approach is relevant, because it relies on the potential of the territories and is aimed at more intensive use of its own capabilities. The infrastructure and service methodology for the development of innovative communities implies the understanding that innovations cover not only technological changes, but also changes in organizational, labor and social practices as those that can potentially affect the well-being of human capital of communities. Service modeling involves describing all processes in communities of different typologies in order to take these processes into account while projecting. Infrastructure and service projecting is the process of organizing space in such a way that economic agents interact as smoothly and efficiently as possible within innovative communities. In this context of the project, service innovations will be considered at the local level as an integration totality of basic factors of living standards, socioeconomic conditions, characterizations of innovative business entities, innovation infrastructure, cluster and network connections. The authors believe that for infrastructure development at the decent level, it is necessary to maximize the existing potential of the community, which is as most effectively possible through the development of innovative communities. Within the terms of practical implementation of the infrastructure and service methodology for the development of innovative communities, it is advisable to consider the hypothesis that development at the regional level should be carried out through a combination of smart-specialization strategies and the objectives of sustainable development.

In this paper we explore virtual communities of practice VCoPs and the way in which educational professionals learn and generate innovations therein. The point of departure is that innovation practice is based mainly on the interaction and communication between professionals and that virtual communities add a new dimension to this interaction. Our empirical data were collected from three web discussion threads of a virtual discussion forum. 677 statements were classified into 15 dialogue themes. Using the five cycles of value creation by Wenger et al. 2011, these themes were further classified into different stages in the innovation development process. The contribution of this study is in showing that the cycles of value creation can be used to describe the processes of networked learning and innovation development in virtual communities used by professionals. We found out that copious information and idea flows precede learning and innovation in these communities. Therefore, from the point of view of practical implications, we emphasise the importance of emergent dialogue as a prerequisite of learning and innovating.

Empowerment of the disadvantaged and the marginalised in a society is one of the inherent commitments of meaningful social mobilisation, both in theory and practice. One of the core aspects of social mobilisation is to engage with relations of power and reorganise them in favour of the disadvantaged. For a marginalised group in a community, this requires the capacity to define their goals and the environment or the freedom (to act) to achieve those goals – an aspect referred to in development literature as collective agency. Collective agency transforms into collective action when the interests of several social actors converge and lead to voluntary engagement to achieve a common cause. Community organisations, established through a process of social mobilisation, are increasingly viewed as a mechanism in community development to create collective agency, spur collective action and empower lower-status groups or the disadvantaged.However, some empirical studies conducted to scrutinise the potential of social mobilisation and community development programs have pointed to the risk of strengthening the traditional unequal relations of power instead of challenging them. They have also noted the potential for elite-capture of the spaces created through social mobilisation processes. In these respects, a gap between theory and practice was identified, namely, that the perceptions, viewpoints and experiences of the disadvantaged and the most marginalised at the grassroot level who are directly or indirectly affected by social mobilisation and community development programs are generally underexplored. Moreover, it was also realised that the success of social mobilisation programs is generally measured in terms of input versus output analysis rather than exploring their transformative potential and their impact on the overall power configuration in a social structure. The current research goes some way towards addressing this gap by exploring the relationship between social mobilisation, participation and social change and the processes involved in these strategies in the context of elite-based, tradition-bound and exclusionary decision-making and governance arrangements. The research employed a qualitative case study method and involved document analysis, observation and interviews as instruments to explore and analyse people’s perceptions and experiences in relation to the empowerment potential of a ‘three-tier social mobilisation strategy’[1] spearheaded by the Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN)[2] in Chitral, a North-western rural district in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan. The study specifically focused upon whether and how RSPN’s social mobilisation strategy has contributed to re-shaping traditional patterns of elite-based decision-making into more inclusive, participatory and democratic processes for social change.The study findings show that the community spaces created by RSPN do not truly represent the disadvantaged and the marginalised community. Instead, they have emerged as elite-captured formal entities. These organisations are used by their leaders (members of elite groups) for social exclusion of the disadvantaged and as means to conceal persistent power inequalities and to influence broader governance structures to meet their vested interests. Therefore, the empowerment potential of the socio-economic resources invested in or through these spaces was found to be limited.The study findings reveal that certain aspects embedded in the three-tier social mobilisation strategy, such as elite-based recruitment of community activists, project-bounded social activism and savings-focused community participation, allow members of elite groups to re-institutionalise their power. This, in turn, enables elites to capture new institutional spaces created by RSPN. The study found that outright capture of newly created community spaces by elites, the concentration of development funds in these organisations together with the ‘civic habitus’ shaped as a result of the people’s lived experiences of oppression, marginalisation and social exclusion, lead them to comply with the regime of power strategically – a phenomenon referred to as ‘strategic compliance’ in this study. The study findings further show that these conditions encourage the elites to extend their power both within the three-tiered organisational structures (provided by RSPN) and beyond, into external spaces such as local and District Council offices and even into provincial and federal parliaments.Overall, I conclude that intermittent, resource-focused mobilisation, bounded by project targets framed around limited tangible outcomes as goals of community development, is not only open to elite-capture but may provide institutional frameworks (organisational structures and processes) favourable to elites, further amplifying social exclusion of the less-powerful, as well as reproducing traditional relations of power and, ultimately, hindering future prospects for social change.[1] The term refers specifically to the RSPN strategy and any subsequent use of the term in the text will be in that context.[2] RSPN (http://www.rspn.org/) is a development network of ten member Rural Support Programmes (RSPs), operating independently, espousing a common approach to development centred upon social mobilisation. Throughout the thesis I distinguish between RSPN (the organisational network) and individual or multiple RSPs, as appropriate. ​​​​​​​

Based on the empirical findings of a survey of innovation networks (see Chap. 2), the results of the five case studies presented in Chap. 3 and the practical experience in developing innovation communities outlined in the previous chapter, this chapter presents hands-on methods for initiating and developing innovation communities. Section 5.1 presents methods and instruments that innovation networks use. The findings are based on a sample of 107 innovation networks in Germany. While this first section describes methods and instruments that are used by innovation networks in general, Sect. 5.2 is focussing specifically on the methods and measures employed by innovation communities. The chapter differentiates the methods and measures, which have been used in the five innovation cases (see Sects. 3.5–3.9), according to five basic tasks in the management of cooperative innovation projects: (1) Process Support, (2) Foresight, (3) Idea Generation, (4) Technology and Market Analysis and (5) Stakeholder Interaction. Section 5.3 brings together empirical and practical knowledge as to which methods and measures can be used by innovation and network managers for the initiation and development of innovation communities. The findings are summarized in a “toolbox”. Within the InnoCo project, many tools have been tried and tested in innovation community development. Special attention has been given to two methodological approaches which are as important for the development of innovation communities as they are methodologically complex. These are: systemic innovation coaching of innovation communities, and Delphi-based scenario development in innovation networks. These methods are presented in Sects. 5.4 and 5.5.

Поглиблено розуміння природи спільнот, для чого використано різні критерії їх визначення, зокрема географічний, професійний, соціально-проблемний, екологічно-проблемний, культурно-етнічний. Визначено, що одним з видів спільнот є інноваційні спільноти – групи людей, які спрямовують свою діяльність на отримання інноваційних результатів у спільному середовищі, що здатні вплинути на вирішення значущих соціально-економічних і екологічних проблем суспільства. За результатами систематизації науково-теоретичних засад виявлення феномену інноваційних спільнот визначено їх сутнісні характеристики й переваги для розвитку територіальних громад. Інноваційні спільноти є джерелами прогресивних суспільних трансформацій, оскільки спрямовані на стійкий і сталий розвиток територій. Обґрунтовано роль і можливості інноваційних спільнот у відродженні постраждалих від війни українських територій за принципом «відбудувати краще, ніж було» (build back better). Розкрито сутність цього принципу, який полягає у відновленні, відбудові й реконструкції різних сфер суспільства після катастроф і лих не просто до попереднього (у випадку України – довоєнного) стану, а на основі впровадження якісно нових змін і вдосконалень. Підкреслено відповідність реалізації цього принципу національним інтересам України. Визначено необхідність забезпечення еволюції територіальних громад та їх населення від переважно пасивного спостерігача і споживача до активного учасника процесу відродження населених пунктів на засадах стійкості й сталості. Це потребує запровадження відкритості в державному управлінні й партнерських відносин місцевих органів влади з місцевим населенням, розвитку громадської свідомості й активності, заохочення підприємництва, соціальних і екологічних місцевих ініціатив, поширення успішних інноваційних практик і сталого способу життя.

Over the last 40 years, Aboriginal Community Based Organisations have played a distinctive role in society in relation to urban Aboriginal peoples and their rights to self‐determination and community development in the Australian city of Newcastle. They have proven essential to advocacy, the maintenance of community development, and the creation of new Aboriginal social infrastructure (community organisations, facilities, services, and supporting infrastructure). Autonomy has been empowering for local Aboriginal people. Major reforms to the delivery of government social services, particularly government enablement of a new social service market based on New Public Management principles, threaten this success. This interpretive, qualitative case study illustrates the effects of social service market enablement. It draws on a case study of the effects of social service market enablement on urban Aboriginal Community Based Organisations in Newcastle, showing the antagonistic relationship between social service market enablement and Aboriginal community enablement and development. It ends with a discussion of how Aboriginal community development in this city could be re‐enabled in light of the Prime Minister's arguments in his 2017 Annual Parliamentary Closing the Gap speech providing particular value in the context of policy discussions about moving from transactional government to enablement in Indigenous affairs.

Problem setting. The state of the rural population in modern Ukraine is characterized by predominantly negative tendencies to suspend and prevent which is not possible by only one financial and economic measures. The problems of employment, the impairment of agricultural labor, the imbalance of the social standards of the village and the city have a deeper context, and therefore require the study of spiritual and value factors, as well as the possibility of their change in order to ensure sustainable rural development. Territorial community in rural areas acts as a means and at the same time an environment of transformative activity of citizens. It is the community in the conditions of decentralization of power that becomes the basic center for the formation and development of the spiritual values of society. However, the influence on the spiritual and value development of communities requires, first of all, to clarify the essence of this phenomenon, to clarify the corresponding conceptual-categorical apparatus. Recent research and publications analysis. The problem of systematization of Ukrainian national spiritual values is devoted to the works of M. Brilya, O. Vishnevsky, L. Misiv, G. Sitnik, P. Sitnik, Yu. Surmin and others [4; 10; 13; 16–17]. Importance are the development of domestic scientists, devoted to the problems of the formation and development of territorial communities as factors of the spiritual development of society [3; 6; 12]. The contributions of such scientists as O. Batanov [1], V. Yermolenko [7], V. Kozakov [9], M. Orlaty, I. Demchak [14; 15] and others. The paper objective – to define the concept and essence of spiritual and value development of territorial communities in rural areas. The paper main body. The basic vector of socio-cultural, economic and political development of the state depends to a great extent on the spirituality of the individual and society. Areas of research of spiritual and value development of Ukrainian society are analyzed. The functions, essence and manifestation of spiritual values are investigated. It is determined that the spiritual and value development of society and its components – territorial communities – can be considered as a combination of individual and social, which creates the preconditions for an integrated approach to the implementation of public management influence in this area. It is confirmed that the overcoming of the negative trends in the spiritual and value development of rural communities is impossible without the legal, material and financial support of social institutions that have an impact on the spiritual life of the villagers; Coordination, coherence and constructiveness in the interaction of subjects of public administration. Conclusions of the research. Ukrainian society needs today a value consolidation, an important condition for improving public policy in the area of spiritual and value development of rural communities. At the same time, the task of the state is not the unification of the value system, but the creation of conditions for various directions of spiritual development of both individuals and individual communities, including rural communities. It is this approach that will allow us to create conditions for identifying and further public support for a single national idea, a universally accepted ideology of state formation, and the formation of a holistic national consciousness.

A single organization or individual is almost always unable to provide completely satisfactory solutions to a community problem. Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) provide a method in which entities capitalize on existing human capital to spur cooperative innovation in community and economic development. This report details the successful experience of the U.S. EDA University Center for Regional Economic Innovation (REI) at Michigan State University in utilizing a COIN as a resilient economic and community development strategy. This method is successful as it allows for the resilience and adaptability of decentralized networks while retaining access to a large resource base.

A guerrilla war is an intimate affair, fought not merely with weapons but fought in the minds of the men who live in the villages and in the hills, fought by the spirit and policy of those who run the local government.- W. W. Rostow1Over the past decade, community development, a program design that inverts standard foreign aid models by putting the poor in charge of shaping and implementing development projects, has reemerged as a central mechanism for the delivery of aid in conflict zones.2 Although hard figures are limited, a few data points indicate that community development's overall growth has been rapid: from 1989 to 2003, the share of World Bank projects with a community development component rose from 2 to 25 percent of the total portfolio; by 2007, more than 9 percent of World Bank spending went to community interventions.3 Community development programs are among the largest and most significant aid interventions in a number of conflictaffected countries and subregions, including Afghanistan, southern Thailand, the Philippines, western Colombia, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Uganda, Nepal, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.The rapid rise of community development has been in part driven by its operational simplicity and robustness. Aid practitioners argue that by channeling assistance directly to the grassroots, community-level interventions can launch quickly, scale rapidly and flexibly, remain functional under insecure, unstable conditions, and deliver benefits that are better configured to local needs.4 But community development's rise has been driven by a deeper set of ambitions for aid: to mobilize the poor to control their own development and demand better governance, and to transform government to make it more relevant and responsive. The goal of community development, in short, is to build a new social contract between citizen and state.The proposition I advance in this essay is that the mechanisms community development uses to reconstruct the social contract also act to embed state institutions within the grassroots. Community development functions, in effect, as an instrument for state-building. In nonconflict areas, the downward flow of resources and upward flow of participation enabled by community development represent a mechanism for citizens to receive more and better government. In conflict areas, the systems that enable this reciprocal flow can closely parallel civil counterinsurgency operations.The point is not that community interventions are cloaked counterinsurgency projects - I argue that the two practices undertake fundamentally different forms of legitimation-but that community development's operations mirror the state-building elements of civil counterinsurgency. From the perspective of both insurgent groups and governments combating insurrections, community development may not be a politically inert poverty reduction technology but an intervention that supports the reach of the state, particularly in contexts where the state and insurgents are competing at the grassroots by providing governance and public services. Development practitioners must factor these local understandings of their projects, and the potential responses by insurgents and counterinsurgents alike, into their own strategies and program designs.Development from the Bottom UpPioneered in the 1950s, community development offered a vision of social transformation that diverged from the various iterations of modernization theory that dominated foreign aid for much of the twentieth century. While modernization theory envisioned development as a teleological process of engineered social change, piloted by technocrats and delivered through large-scale interventions and injections of capital and expertise, community development attempted to spur economic transformation by leveraging the knowledge and participation of the rural poor and providing smallscale projects - irrigation systems, agricultural extension services, rural credit systems - carefully tailored to local needs. …

Community building and community development, i.e., community management are a key success factor in the digital economy. They differentiate business models in the digital economy from traditional ones. These communities may be constituted as Internet shops, portal sites, groupware systems, electronic auctions, billboards, enterprises or organizations. Product-centered communities as well as communities of interest are relevant for electronic marketing, as for example the reader communities at Amazon.com, The Well, or Dreamworks. Another example are communities that form value chains, such as single product manufacturing consortia or flexible consumer-driven organization of global supply chains. Further examples are topic and technology oriented communities such as Open-EDI trading communities, Open Trading on the Internet (OTP), or EDI/XML, in addition to the community-oriented programming of Linux. Communities of practice or learning communities are pivotal for knowledge management.As the mentioned examples show, online communities differ in their orientation. The features that all types of communities share are common interests, practices, languages and ontologies with common semantics as well as normative issues. The platform plays a special role for those communities. Thus, the relation, interplay or symbiosis between communities and platforms is of particular interest.This minitrack comprises a series of papers that address communities, their platforms and community-related business models as critical success factors in the digital economy. It covers a variety of novel concepts, models and platforms for communities. This minitrack deals with: Community-related business models, best practices and lessons learned. Case studies and topologies of Online Communities. Conceptual frameworks, formal and semi-formal models of communities, the behavior of agents and the platforms. Design principles for interaction and community platforms: Coordination, trust, normative values, design patterns and methods, implementations, architectures and components.The first session of this minitrack comprises three papers on communities in general. Katarina Stanoevska and Beat F. Schmid present a typology of communities and community supporting platforms. Yao Hua Tan and Cristiano Castelfranchi discuss with trust and deception two of the most crucial issues in Electronic Commerce. The third paper of the first session, written by Bernd Simon, Susanne Guth and Gustaf Neumann presents a general framework for Learning Media.The second session comprises three case studies of communities in the digital economy. Dorine Andrews and Jennifer Preece present an analysis of communities that are resistant to Online Interaction. The second paper by Alexander Hars and Shaosong Ou is an empirical study on the motivation for participation in communities arising around open source projects. Ulrike Lechner and Beat Schmid analyze in a series of case studies the relation of business models and system architectures in communities.The third session presents two papers that deal with application specific issues in communities. Steven O. Kimbrough, D.J. Wu and Fang Zhong present a simulation framework for software agents in supply chain management. The second paper of this section authored by Sue Newell and Jacky Swan deals with communities in innovation and knowledge management.The paper of Dorine Andrews and Jennifer Preece entitled ?A Conceptual Framework for Communities Resistant to Online Interaction? was nominated for the best paper award of this minitrack.

The article outlines the essence of the concept of "territorial community" and identifies the main features that characterize it. The importance of innovation processes for the development of territorial communities and their types are substantiated. Foreign approaches to territorial development on the basis of innovations are analyzed. It is determined that the basis of innovative activity of territorial communities of developed countries is based on three paradigms: "new paradigm in rural areas", "local development" and "knowledge economy". It is established that the presence of shortcomings in the public administration of the socio-humanitarian sphere significantly slows down the innovation processes of territorial communities. The essence of institutional and organizational factors of activation of innovation processes is revealed. A study of domestic literature on the development of territorial communities and factors of activation of their innovative activities.Key words: innovation infrastructure, innovation culture, innovation community, innovation processes, socio-humanitarian sphere.