Facilitating Communication in Adaptive Planning Processes for Inclusive Innovation: Discussing an Integrative Approach

Abstract

In this chapter, it is argued that linear approaches have influenced innovation strategies for local development, having limitations for addressing long-standing socio-economic problems in unequal and exclusionary societies such as Peru. However, the facilitation of a broader communication perspective could contribute to configure more inclusive innovation processes for a number of reasons: it can contribute to understand the nature of inclusive innovation processes; it can serve to recognise entry points for inclusive innovation as well as to reorient innovation processes towards inclusivity. This discussion allows a rethinking of the current innovation strategies for local development and proposes a set of recommendations to enable communication with adaptive planning processes for a broad-based inclusive development strategy in the Peruvian context.