Innovation and Local Development - INNODES

Reference of the Group:

GIUV2016-296

 
Description of research activity:

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.

 
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Scientific-technical goals:
  • Analisis de los sistemas urbanos y metropolitanos
  • Analisis de los procesos de innovacion en la industria
  • Analisis de la planificacion de servicios publicos
  • Analisis de los espacios turisticos
  • Estudios sobre desarrollo territorial sostenible
  • Analisis de la innovacion social y su impacto territorial a distintes escalas
  • Propuesta de lineas estrategicas para la politica publica
  • Estudio del impacto territorial de las politicas publicas
  • Analisis de las dinamicas y movimientos sociales
  • Analisis de las politicas de intervencion con colectivos vulnerables y en riesgo de exclusion
  • Estudio del impacto y las dinamicas de inmigracion y diversidad cultural
  • Estudio del impacto de los derechos humanos y la cooperacion al desarrollo
 
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 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.
  • 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.
  • Social dynamics and development cooperation.Study of social relations and local development brought about by the dynamics of change in societies, as well as the improvement of the quality of life of vulnerable groups in the territory, taking human rights, social policies and sustainable development as a reference.
 
Group members:
Name Nature of participation Entity Description
JULIA SALOM CARRASCODirectorUniversitat de València
Research team
JUAN MIGUEL ALBERTOS PUEBLAMemberUniversitat de València
MARIA DOLORES PITARCH GARRIDOMemberUniversitat de València
ANA SALES TENMemberUniversitat de València
CARMEN ZORNOZA GALLEGOMemberUniversitat de València
FELIX FAJARDO MAGRANERMemberUniversitat de València
JAVIER ITURRINO GUERREROCollaboratorUniversitat de València
Magda Yolima Arias CantorCollaboratorUniversitat de València - Estudi GeneralUVEG PhD student
 
CNAE:
  • -
 
Associated structure:
  • Inter-university Institute for Local Development (IIDL)
 
Keywords:
  • innovation, industry, territorial development
  • mobility, sustainability, territorial planning, urban hierarchy
  • cities, urban planning, services and facilities
  • Estado del benestar, Servicios públicos, innovación social, turismo
  • urban structure, mobility, territorial planning, tourism, sustainability
  • Territorio y sociedad, Intervención social, Desarrollo humano