Territory: Reflections Based on Social Innovation Experiences

Abstract

The paper explores some conceptual approaches to social innovation as an alternative strategy to development and its impact on the territory, the exercise of which provides elements that favor the construction of territorial identity and promote social inclusion and cohesion. It discloses conceptions of the territory based on experiences of social innovation taken from interviews made to organizations such as AHMSA, whose name is in the Chibcha language and means ‘being born’, and the Parque Explora Corporation, which use social innovation as a strategy for the consolidation of territorial identity processes. Finally, the contributions of social innovation to territorial identity are shown. This paper has two clear intentions: the first is to take professional to the field of reflection and give it a theoretical sense; the second is to make it clear that social innovation and territory are a wide field of research that needs to be rethought from other disciplines.