Innovative rural territories: The case of Loreto in the promotion of territorial innovation to generate economic and social development in rural areas

Abstract

This article addresses the possibilities that arise for the promotion of innovation spaces in rural areas with small populations, in order to contribute to the design of public policies that promote their insertion in economic circuits, favor their quality of life and reduce the gaps of inequality. For this, the search for tools to promote an emerging rural innovation system is proposed, bringing together the key actors who can contribute to the process. In this sense, the case of the ornamental plant producers of Loreto, Corrientes, demonstrates the potentiality of the approach of the Territorial Systems of Rural Innovation, in which the producers, the institutional actors, and the dynamics that occur between them are contempled.