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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…

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…

Sustainable innovation, resilient innovation, and societally desirable innovation – if this sounds appealing to you, perhaps you should consider involving civil society in your innovation process.

As you can read going through this website, RiConfigure seeks to both enhance conceptual clarity on and enable new types of collaboration constellations democratizing innovation. This is done in five social labs around Europe and Colombia. Recently, Vincent Blok, Robert Braun, and Renate Wesselink from the RiConfigure project have co-authored a scientific article on the…

Despite of the current Covid-19 crisis, RiConfigure is still running, exploring the praxis and dynamics of quadruple helix collaborations. However, the project has obviously had to adapt to the situation and move the experimentation in the social labs online. For the same reason, the third panel meeting in the Danish social lab on climate change…

The Sustainable Development Goal on water as defined by the United Nations states that : “accessible water for all is an essential part of the world we want to live in and there is sufficient fresh water on the planet to achieve this. However, due to bad economics or poor infrastructure, millions of people including…