[EN] Smart city is an innovative paradigm tackling a range of emerging problems associated with urbanization, massively understood from a technology-driven approach. Much of the focus of the smart city movement to date – ...
Piñeiro, Verónica; Martinez Gomez, Victor David; Melia-Marti, Elena; García Alvarez-Coque, José María(Elsevier, 2021-05)
[EN] In several Spanish regions, collective action through production and marketing cooperatives has traditionally concentrated the food supply of small and medium-sized farms. However, many cooperatives are threatened by ...
[EN] Recently we have witnessed the growth of social innovation initiative as a viable approach to address many challenges of contemporary societies across the social, cultural, economic, educational and environmental ...
[EN] There is growing interest in the potential of grassroots innovations for the transition towards more just and sustainable societies. Nevertheless, there is lack of clear normative discussion regarding these processes. ...
[EN] Participative processes and citizens’ empowerment are considered crucial aspects of social innovation (SI),
involving collaborative activities between the private, public, and third sectors. This article discusses ...
[EN] Cooperativism, as an agent of social innovation, significantly contributes to fostering a dynamic economy and plays a fundamental role in rural areas. Analyses of profitability in cooperatives versus Investor-Owned ...
[EN] This paper explores the contribution the capability approach (CA) and grassroots innovation (GI) literature makes to a better understanding of the complexity, richness and specificity of bottom-up processes of social ...
Font Cifré, Marta(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022-01-18)
[EN] Up until the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing state of alarm that altered its
normal functioning the museum didn’t have a clear strategy regarding its
digital aspects. During those months of uncertainty and growing ...
Espinós Roig, David(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-09-17)
[ES] El objetivo de este estudio es caracterizar el potencial transformador que presentan las innovaciones sociales colectivas, concretamente el caso de una cooperativa de vivienda. Se propone un marco teórico para poder ...
Piñeiro, Verónica Ana(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022-09-02)
[ES] El objetivo general de esta Tesis ha sido avanzar en el estudio de los determinan-tes o características que pueden conducir a una colaboración exitosa entre los actores del sistema agroalimentario. Para ello, se ...
Valero, Diana E.; López Marco, Lucía(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-06-28)
[EN] This article explores interdisciplinarity in social innovation facing rural depopulation. For this purpose, we analyse the diversity of disciplines involved in the social innovation initiatives registered in the ...
Lopez-Fogues, Aurora; Fernández-Baldor, Álvaro; Boni Aristizábal, Alejandra(Instituto Nacional de Administracion Publica, 2017)
[EN] This article presents the vision that Santander, Valencia, Bilbao and Donostia have of the Smart City (SC). It
also explores how local corporations interact with grassroots digital innovation experiences, understood ...
[EN] Social innovation, (SI) emerges in any country as a part of companies
and services development which improve users` social needs in their
immediate environment. This involve a new processes¿ and
methodologies¿ adaptation ...
Paniagua Ramirez, Karla(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-10-27)
[EN] We present the experience of the researching and making of the Futures Design specialty,
graduate program for the training of experts in solving social problems based on the
methods of foresight, set of tools and ...
Tamarit González, Olga(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-11-11)
[ES] Los Laboratorios ciudadanos pretenden transformar la ciudad a través de quienes la habitan, situando a los ciudadanos como protagonistas y productores de sus propias alternativas, y no como receptores pasivos de ...
García Alvarez-Coque, José María; Martinez Gomez, Victor David; Tudela-Marco, Lorena(Elsevier, 2021-12)
[EN] Farmland abandonment is common in the southern EU countries. This complex phenomenon has a set of interlinked causes and consequences, among the latter the undermining of farmers' cooperatives role as supply aggregators. ...
[EN] Fab Labs as manufacturing laboratories that stimulate innovation and collaboration are nowadays proliferating within universities. Given the new social challenges, framed within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), ...
Lechuga Jiménez, Iván(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023-10-27)
[ES] El desarrollo de los sistemas de innovación en ambientes multiculturales puede llevar a conflictos entre las formas de producción del conocimiento, como la tecnociencia, con los grupos culturales. Aun así, es posible ...
Sánchez Lang, Bárbara(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023-10-05)
[ES] El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo definir la metodología e indicadores con los que Mercavalència podrá establecer un escenario cero a partir del cual elaborar una propuesta de reducción del Desperdicio Alimentario ...
Muñoz Domenech, Ruth(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-12-30)
[ES] Este Trabajo Final de Grado gira en torno a una aplicación móvil destinada a solventar las carencias de información a las que se enfrentan las personas migrantes a su llegada al municipio de València. A través de un ...