Research Group on Innovation and Local Development

Description

The research activity of the Innovation and Local Development R&D Group (INNODES) belonging to the Inter-University Institute of Local Development (IIDL) of the Universitat de València and Universitat Jaume I, focuses on aspects related to economic geography, spatial planning and regional development, in particular on the analysis of urban and metropolitan systems, innovation processes, planning of public services, geography of well-being, social innovation, tourism and its territorial impact, sustainability and processes of resilience and local development; as well as in the analysis of social dynamics, population movements and development cooperation in diverse territories.

Goals CT

Analysis of urban and metropolitan systems.
Analysis of innovation processes in industry.
Analysis of the planning of public services.
Analysis of tourist areas.
Studies on sustainable territorial development.
Analysis of social innovation and its territorial impact at different scales.
Proposal of strategic lines for public policy.
Study of the territorial impact of public policies.
Analysis of social dynamics and movements.
Analysis of intervention policies with vulnerable groups and those at risk of exclusion.
Study of the impact and dynamics of immigration and cultural diversity.
Study of the impact of human rights and development cooperation.

Research lines

Territorial development, institutional networks and socioeconomic innovation processes (Industrial Districts)
Analysis of the innovation flows that take place in a geographically localised production system, taking into account the concentration and cooperation of SMEs, social cohesion and interactions between companies, as well as formal and informal institutional relations.
Mobility and transport
Study and analysis of forced mobility flows, for reasons of work or study, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), to help decision making in territorial planning, from a socioeconomic perspective, and the provision of and access to services and facilities. Study of the transport flows of people and goods from a perspective of multiscale analysis of networks as a determining element of urban hierarchy and regional development.
Urban structure, mobility and new data sources for Geography
Study of the relation between urban structure and the mobility of people in urban areas. Use of new data sources mainly from information and communication technologies for studying different spatial dynamics. Evaluation and management of the territory from a social, environmental and economic perspective.
Urban systems
Study of cities in their relation with other cities and with the rest of the territory. Their specialised functions and global relations are analysed, as well as their provision of public and private services and their appropriate planning by means of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Welfare Geography
Welfare state, Public services, social innovation and Tourism.

Management