Understanding and applying the concept of innovative communities, to achieve sustainable development

Outside Looking in:
External Stakeholders fostering
innovative communities

Hari Srinivas
Continuing Research Series E-121. July 2020

Abstract:
The slideshow "Outside Looking In: External Stakeholders Fostering Innovative Communities" explores the critical role that actors beyond the community play in enabling and strengthening local innovation processes. It highlights how governments, NGOs, private sector entities, and international organizations can support communities through knowledge transfer, capacity building, policy support, and resource mobilization.

The presentation emphasizes that while innovation must be rooted within communities, external stakeholders act as catalysts by providing perspectives, tools, and linkages that communities may not possess internally. It further underscores the importance of partnerships, mutual learning, and context-sensitive engagement to ensure that external interventions complement rather than override local knowledge and priorities.

Keywords:
external stakeholders, community innovation, capacity building, knowledge transfer, partnerships, policy support, local empowerment, sustainable development


Slide 1: Title slide


Slide 2: What are the components of a "communtiy"?


Slide 3: So what are innovative communities?


Slide 4: Exploring how external stakeholders foster innovativesness in communities


Slide 5: Why are external stakeholders needed?


Slide 6: Two-way flow of interactions


Slide 7: Components of interactions with external stakeholders


Slide 8: The need for different levels of analyses


Slide 9: Framework to understand the interaction between external stakeholders and innovative communities


Slide 10: External stakeholder - Local Governments


Slide 11: External stakeholder - NGOs/NPOs


Slide 12: External stakeholder - Universities and Research Institutions


Slide 13: External stakeholder - Manufacturing Industries


Slide 14: External stakeholder - Business and Trade


Slide 15: External stakeholder - UN and International Organizations

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