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Online! Ministudy on Society-Driven Innovation

Our latest ministudy “Society-Driven Innovation” just went online at the official INNO-GRIPS website. This study reviews existing definitions and understandings of Society-Driven Innovation (SDI), relate these to existing and previous policy practice, and assess the effectiveness of the concept in innovation policy in a provisional manner. It also seeks,

User-driven innovation

Innovation Zen blog, owned by Daniel Scocco, has a clear explanation about user-driven innovation. According to the blog, there are four approaches to implement user-driven innovation, i.e. (i) personas, (ii) ethnography, (iii) fan bases and (iv) participatory design. There is also a link to a briefing by Innovaro on the topic.

Interesting readings (with some buts …)

Top five of Google-Scholar search on “Social Innovation” points to these:

1. The Process of Social Innovation (Schopenhauer, 2006) published by Innovations journal at MIT. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/itgg.2006.1.2.145 – but cannot be downloaded because it is not free .. :-(

On Mini-Study: Society-driven Innovation

This mini study is proposed by Chirstope Guichard. There are some main issues here:

• Which mega-trends are underlying this concept?
• What are the transmission mechanisms between society needs and innovation?
• What sort of public intervention is required?

If you have anything in mind, please share here.