From the politic of innovation to the innovational territorial development in middle cities: the case of Aranda de Duero.

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyse the principal components of Castilla y León's innovation system, placing a particular emphasis on the transversal role played by financing as well as the body and results by sector and territory of the total financial aid administered by Ade, Castilla y León’s Investment and Service Agency, destined to boost both RD related activity and companies, as well as innovative enterprising initiatives, considered to be potentially one of the most promising future alternatives for Castilla y León’s traditional productive base. In this paper, we have opted to focus on the socio-institutional aspects of innovation processes on a local scale, identifying those agents and networks created ad hoc, relating both corporate and social considerations, and attempting to analyse the impact of these processes in Aranda de Duero (Castilla y León).