Bridging research and rural areas

This paper describes some aspects of a managerial prototype useful to the creation of operational practices, the introduction of management tools and interpretative keys at a territorial level outlining specific social, economic and environmental indicators within identified operative platforms. Bridging research (and the related innovation supply) and a rural area (with its territorial resources, private and public subjects) should e the central core of various initiatives directed to contribute to facilitate the innovation diffusion at local level in different and integrated forms: research products, training activities, know how, expertise, learning visits, scientific partnerships, etc. A multi dimensional approach, integrating the engineering and the human-cultural sides of development, is likely to provide concrete contributions to improve success margins when research centres meet local realities thus increasing the opportunity to achieve more efficiency and effectiveness when calibrating this supply to local innovation and development needs.