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The literature has shown the importance of incorporating civil society into the regional innovation system to favor companies' long-term growth. This research aims to carry out a systematic review on the definition and classification of society in the innovation model based on the contexts that relate to the university, business, and government. The results show that the concept of civil society has been approached in the literature from four perspectives: demand-side, media and culture, independent non-profit, and intermediary organizations. These results may help clarify the concept of civil society, having significant implications for academics and companies, and regional innovation agencies that promote the participation of civil society in their innovation systems. ; La literatura ha mostrado la importancia de incorporar a la sociedad civil al sistema de innovación regional para favorecer el crecimiento de las empresas a largo plazo. El objetivo de esta investigación es realizar una revisión sistemática sobre la definición y clasificación de la sociedad en el modelo de innovación basado en los contextos que relacionan a la universidad, a las empresas y el gobierno. Los resultados muestran que el concepto de sociedad civil se ha enfocado en la literatura desde cuatro perspectivas: de la demanda, de los medios de comunicación y la cultura, de las organizaciones independientes sin fines de lucro y de las organizaciones intermedias. Estos resultados pueden ayudar a clarificar el concepto de sociedad civil, teniendo importantes implicaciones, tanto para académicos como para las empresas y las agencias regionales de innovación que promuevan la participación de la sociedad civil en sus sistemas de innovación.

In this article, we offer a contribution to the emerging debate on the role of citizen participation in food system policy making. A key driver is a recognition that solutions to complex challenges in the food system need the active participation of citizens to drive positive change. To achieve this, it is crucial to give citizens the agency in processes of designing policy interventions. This requires authentic and reflective engagement with citizens who are affected by collective decisions. One such participatory approach is citizen assemblies, which have been used to deliberate a number of key issues, including climate change by the UK Parliament's House of Commons (House of Commons., 2019). Here, we have undertaken analysis of a citizen food assembly organized in the City of York (United Kingdom). This assembly was a way of hearing about a range of local food initiatives in Yorkshire, whose aim is to both relocalise food supply and production, and tackle food waste. These innovative community-based business models, known as 'food hubs', are increasing the diversity of food supply, particularly in disadvantaged communities. Among other things, the assembly found that the process of design and sortation of the assembly is aided by the involvement of local stakeholders in the planning of the assembly. It also identified the potential for public procurement at the city level, to drive a more sustainable sourcing of food provision in the region. Furthermore, this citizen assembly has resulted in a galvanizing of individual agency with participants proactively seeking opportunities to create prosocial and environmental change in the food system.