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By Johannes Starkbaum and Anna Gerhardus, Institut für Höhere Studien – Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Austria How to support collaborative research and innovation? How can policy and funding enable collaboration on eye-level? These questions were the core of the third session of RiConfigure’s Virtual Final Event on June 15th, 2021 Participants from academia and…

RiConfigure is soon reaching its end, but before it does you have the possibility to join our final event! June 8th, 9th and 15th, you can join three different sessions: The first session will engage participants in the discussion of what we have learned from the Riconfigure project; The second session will focus on what…

Despite the pandemic, RiConfigure has conducted courses on collaborative innovation during spring. One of the courses focused on sustainable food and was organized by the Studies Center on Science, Communication and Society (Pompeu Fabra University) and the Barcelona Metropolitan Strategic Plan, in collaboration with Barcelona World Sustainable Food Capital and the Barcelona City Council. The…

Our courses focus on a novel concept that intends to diversify innovation, the collaboration between the different sectors or helices of society: academia, industry, public sector and civil society. This approach, also known as Quadruple helix collaborations (QHC), helps address complex issues, which are a common base in many innovation processes. But it also poses…

Throughout the RiConfigure project, the partners have sought to investigate what real life Quadruple Helix Collaborations look like. This has led to new insights, which our partners from Wageningen University, Eugen Octav Popa, Vincent Blok and Renate Wesselink, have condenced into an article published in Science and Public Policy. You can read the article here.

The Riconfigure project was introduced to the 48 attendees during a system constellation on green hydrogen on September 25th. Nienke Homan (Province of Groningen), Cas König (Groningen Seaports) and Maarten van Dijk (skyNRG) were invited to inspire the participants. The session started with the formulation of the main question, brought in by Nienke Homan: why…

The magnitude of the Corona crisis took us all by surprise. Shops were closed down, wherever possible people had to work from home and events got cancelled or postponed. The scientific community was afflicted as well. One of the events affected was the RiConfigure Dialogue Event, that set out to take place at the Institute for Advanced Studies in May. However, faced with restrictions by the Austrian government and a partial lockdown announced in March, the organizational team had to decide: What to do?

The success of collaborative innovation is not only dependent on the partners involved in the collaboration. It is also highly affected by governance frameworks and other external impacts.

Institutional structure is crucial to the success of a cross-sectoral collaboration. Building such a structure is an on-going and complex process and not a one-time exercise.

These days, the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation convenes a global conversation on the COVID-19 crisis and the shocks that it has caused. As a part of this, OECD hosted a dialogue session capturing the insights of the RiConfigure Dialogue Days, which has now resulted in an insights capture report. In this report, it…