Fostering innovation-driven regional development has become a major priority for public policy. Thus innovation is a crucial issue in Rural Development Programmes (RDP) to overcome challenges like economic development and demographic change. One part of RDP funded by the European Union, which...

Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) – in rural areas implemented as LEADER – is a well-established “territorial delivery mechanism”. The research topic of this contribution is to discuss the influence of different variables of the LEADER implementation on the performance of this...