*4.2.1 The concept of "inner areas"*

Before analyzing the possible impacts of digital innovation, it is necessary to clarify what the concept "inner areas" refers to. This article will embrace the Agency of Territorial Cohesion definition to identify those areas far away, at least 40 kilometers from public services. Moreover, this definition has been crossed with the EUROSTAT association of inner areas with rural areas since their distance from the urban cluster (where urban cluster means contiguous grid cell groups of 1 km2 with a density of at least 300 inhabitants/km2 and a population of at least 5000 inhabitants) [189].
