Democratic participation improves the chances of success of local development policies. New governance processes that directly involve the actors who inhabit the territories are necessary for the challenges that sustainable growth requires. Therefore, the feedback on the pre-existing conditions of cooperation and coexistence is essential for carrying out actions with a place-based logic of development. The Innovation Helix Model allows us to understand the relational dynamics and support territorial strategies in enhancing innovation processes that contemplate the relationship between civil society, public and private institutions, and the natural environment from the perspective of a democratic approach. In this way, ecosystemic innovation is a dynamic network of territorial actors interconnected within a delimited geographical space. This study proposes an innovative way of investigating territorial relationship networks. It examines and describes the network deriving from the policies implemented in an internal area of Sicily. The governance processes implemented through partnership agreements between local actors over ten years have created relationships measured and described through Social Network Analysis (SNA), specifically with Affiliation Networks and Community Detection with a bipartite structure. The study moves towards an innovative territory analysis, looking for the relational links and providing references for building bottom-up policies with greater awareness.

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西西里岛的民主参与网络和治理进程


民主参与提高了地方发展政策的成功机会。直接涉及居住在这些地区的行为者的新治理流程对于应对可持续增长所需的挑战是必要的。因此，对合作与共存先存条件的反馈对于以地方为基础的发展逻辑开展行动至关重要。创新螺旋模型使我们能够了解关系动态并支持领土战略，以加强创新过程，从民主方法的角度思考公民社会、公共和私人机构以及自然环境之间的关系。通过这种方式，生态系统创新是一个在有限的地理空间内相互联系的领土参与者的动态网络。这项研究提出了一种研究地域关系网络的创新方法。它检查并描述了源自西西里岛内部区域实施的政策的网络。十多年来，通过当地参与者之间的伙伴关系协议实施的治理流程已经创建了通过社交网络分析（SNA）衡量和描述的关系，特别是具有二方结构的附属网络和社区检测。该研究转向创新的地域分析，寻找相关联系，为制定具有更高意识的自下而上政策提供参考。