Social innovation, regional development and social sustainability in the Abaúj Region
Social innovation, regional development and social sustainability in the Abaúj Region

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the possible interpretations of the concept of innovation and socialinnovation, looks at social innovation as a process and examines its role in the development of micro-regions. The main purpose of the article is to present a complex social innovation model and its practical use in a project. Therefore, the first part of the article explains the classic concept of social innovation, then the extension of approaches, and finally a complex model. After the theoretical overview, all these concepts and processes are presented as the basic categories of the complex research program Creative Abaúj of the University of Miskolc. The next part of the article outlines the main objectives and project elements of Creative Region project based on Creative Abaúj complex research program, and the last part explains one of the practical products of innovation, the Abaúji Mutató mobile application. The paper reflects to the way up to the theory of social innovation to practice.

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