caa a22 4500 605520151 CHVBK 20210128100734.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11213-015-9347-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11213-015-9347-2 Estensoro Miren Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness and University of Deusto, Mundaiz 50, 20012, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain aut How Can Social Innovation be Facilitated? Experiences from an Action Research Process in a Local Network [Elektronische Daten] [Miren Estensoro] This paper explores how social innovation can be facilitated, a subject that has not been addressed adequately by literature. The results identify five key factors based on a local network developed in Goierri County (Basque Country, Spain). The network was created to foster local economic development through an action research process. The engagement of the author in this action research process permitted her to adopt an "inside-out” position that enabled her to explore similarities in the assumptions that support social innovation and action research. Through an analysis of this process, the nature of the facilitator's knowing how is made explicit in understanding how social innovation is facilitated. The main argument is that action research can facilitate social innovation. The process approach that is applied for this analysis increases the reflexive capacity of the author, leading to a contribution of both new theoretical insight and new practical knowledge. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Social innovation nationallicence Action research nationallicence Facilitation nationallicence Local network nationallicence Territorial development nationallicence Systemic Practice and Action Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 28/6(2015-12-01), 527-545 1094-429X 28:6<527 2015 28 11213 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-015-9347-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-015-9347-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Estensoro Miren Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness and University of Deusto, Mundaiz 50, 20012, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Systemic Practice and Action Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 28/6(2015-12-01), 527-545 1094-429X 28:6<527 2015 28 11213