Enhancing Rural Innovation and Sustainability Through Impact Assessment: A Review of Methods and Tools

So Lee, José M. Díaz-Puente, Pablo Vidueira · 2020 · Sustainability

Summary. Rural innovation assessment requires integrating local context, identifying problems, and engaging stakeholders throughout the process. Social impacts receive the most research attention, but evaluating other impacts remains challenging. The authors propose Developmental Evaluation as a systems approach that uses continuous stakeholder feedback to support adaptive innovation in complex environments, allowing flexible use of diverse assessment methods while remaining responsive to changing circumstances.

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  title   = {Enhancing Rural Innovation and Sustainability Through Impact Assessment: A Review of Methods and Tools},
  author  = {So Lee and José M. Díaz-Puente and Pablo Vidueira},
  journal = {Sustainability},
  year    = {2020},
  doi     = {10.3390/su12166559},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166559}
}

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DOI

10.3390/su12166559

Countries

Spain

Regions

Europe

Categories

innovation-theory, regional-innovation-systems, general-innovation

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2026-08-01