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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…

  The values of different stakeholder groups are important to the development of hydrogen technology In the past couple of months, Wageningen University has participated in a variety of meetings with stakeholders in social lab 3 focusing on the hydrogen economy. These meetings took place in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Groningen, Zeeland, and Chemelot. In partnership with…

Internal and external challenges to collaborative innovation projects December 2nd, the Austrian Railways hosted the second panel meeting of social lab 3 focusing on public sector initiated Quadruple Helix Collaborations. The theme of the meeting was “Open innovation in public sector – internal and external challenges to collaborative innovation projects” encouraging the participants to identify…

Cross-sectoral collaboration is dependent on the communal environment November 5th, the Colombian social lab convened for its second panel meeting in Bogotá. At the meeting, the participants discussed how to identify relevant stakeholders, collaboration challenges, and external factors that may affect their projects. To kickstart this discussion, María Villaveces, ACAC’s CEO, held an introductory presentation…

Industry 4.0 requires tools and methods for collaborating with civil society October 30th, the German social lab focusing on Industry 4.0 convened for its second panel meeting in the SmartFactory OWL in Lemgo, Ost-Westphalia-Lippe. At the meeting, participants working in the context of industrial automation gathered to discuss new tools and design-oriented methods for cross-sectoral…

Process design and mutual understanding are crucial to the empowerment of civil society in research and innovation Second panel meeting Social Lab 4 November 7th 2019, the Danish social lab focusing on innovation of water management convened for its second panel meeting in the town Middelfart. At the meeting, partners from all over Denmark were…

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