TY - GEN AU - Roncevic,Borut AU - Cepoi,Victor AU - Roncevic,Borut AU - Cepoi,Victor TI - Technologies and Innovations in Regional Development: The European Union and its Strategies SN - b17733 PY - 2022/// CY - Bern PB - Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group KW - Political science & theory KW - bicssc KW - Social & political philosophy KW - Society & culture: general KW - Social theory KW - Social research & statistics KW - Sociology: work & labour KW - International economics KW - Computing & information technology KW - Borut KW - Cepoi KW - Development KW - European KW - Innovation KW - Innovations KW - Regional KW - Roncevic KW - Strategies KW - Technologies KW - Union KW - Victor KW - Winkelkötter N1 - Open Access N2 - The subsequent volume revolves around the Social-Fields-Approach (SOFIA) as an approach to conceptualization and operationalisation for the purpose of empirical research. It contributes a new perspective and approach in research on innovation. We believe that SOFIA can have implications for both academic research and practical applications in reshaping the existing instruments and governance arrangements in innovation policy. Whilst applying SOFIA, we urge researchers to leverage the plurality of different qualitative, quantitative and mixed-method approaches in innovation studies, including less conventional methods, such as QCA (Ragin, 2008). Diligent application of SOFIA can also subsequently lead to the development of high-level theoretical contributions UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52377/1/9783631838907.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/77289 ER -