Abstract
Abstract The study of emerging forms of public engagement and collective action is crucial for understanding the ongoing democratic dynamics, citizenship, and the constitution of the city's public problems. To recognize how the field of frontier studies is inseparable from the processes of experience of actors, this study focuses on the importance of the social innovation ecosystem (SIE) for the development of frontier zones. Specifically, this study revisits the main instruments of public management and border development policies to emphasize figures of civil society and their collective mobilizations on the Brazil-Bolivia border, recognizing social innovation initiatives and the main challenges they seek to solve. This path of public investigation allowed us to understand the territorial dimension of borders and expand their meaning as a living space by giving light to the actors' practices, identifying how they mobilize to repair socio-environmental inequalities.
Highlights
The study on public management and border territorial development1 (BTD) has mobilized an expressive segment of researchers at national and international level
These are studies such as those by Costa e Costa (2015) and Conceição e Costa (2017), which are not defined by physical limits and focus on apprehending the production of social interaction within them, reporting how this determines life on the frontier. Given this entire scientific and political scenario, we see that the field of public management studies in border territories follows the larger field of public administration, which is strongly marked by a functionalist conception of science (Andion, 2012), that is, these are studies that seek to produce scientific knowledge that is useful to maintain the status quo, seeking balance, social integration, order, and stability. These findings indicate some gaps that can be addressed in this study, namely: (a) some border studies have been forging their importance over time, which gave this term the label of being “sectorized” for creating stereotypes of a region and reinforcing its marginalization when applied to the limits of the national state (Kaiser, 1998); (b) these studies confuse economic growth with development
The question here is that the explanatory models arising from business approaches emerge to illustrate EEs, identifying a successful ecosystem — having a very limited operationalization when aimed at understanding social innovation ecosystem (SIE) as, among others, EEs prioritize the access to the market, human capital, finances, and ecosystem offers, and do not consider some particularities, such as the trajectory, structure, civil society, the need for a more active role of government, and the scenario and consequences of social innovations in the territory
Summary
The study on public management and border territorial development1 (BTD) has mobilized an expressive segment of researchers at national and international level.
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