Applied research for social innovation:
practices and results of empirical research

Effectively organizing for social innovation needs the development of proven concepts, systematic study in best practices, research based methods and tools for implementing the combined knowledge on technical and social innovation. 

Theme 6 concentrates on four aspects

• Support of companies in the process of Open innovation and to practice producer, user and community involvement.

• Social-cultural aspects of adoption of innovation and methods to forecast and improve adoption.

• Integration of knowledge of human aspects (brain-machine interaction, cognitive- emotional functioning and learning) in the development of new products, services and processes.

• Methods to release the creative and innovative powers of staff.

Theme Leader: dr. Fietje Vaas

Researchers working on this theme:

Dr. Fietje Vaas (Coordinator)

Bas Kotterink

Jan de Leede

Mariëlle den Hengst

Patrick Punte