The document discusses different levels of cooperation in social innovation processes, from informal networking to long-term clusters. It presents a table that defines cooperation, collaboration, engagement, and clusters based on the intensity of ties, whether goals and benefits are mutual, what is shared like resources, and the duration of the link. Cooperation involves formal ties, sharing information and knowledge for development, having mutual goals and benefits, and medium-term duration.

1. First SIC Summer School on
Urban Social Innovation
TILBURG 2016
TEMPLATE: COOPERATION
16 SEPT 2016

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The intensity of the tie define the structure of the exchange and suggest the
possible role of the agents in a social innovation process
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What do you mean by cooperation?
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Intensity of link Formal
/Informal
Information/
Knowledge/
Development
Mutual
Goals
Mutual
Benefit
Sharing
Resources
(RRHH,
money and
time)
Duration of
the link
Networking Informal Information NON YES NON Limited
Collaboration Formal Information /Knowledge YES YES YES Short Term
Cooperation Formal Information and
Knowledge/Development
YES YES YES Medium
Term
Engagement
(civil society)
Informal Information YES YES NON Short term
Cluster Formal Information/Knowledge/
Development
YES YES YES Long Term