Innovation dynamics of socio-technical alignment in community energy storage: The cases of drten and ecovat

With energy transition gaining momentum, energy storage technologies are increasingly spotlighted as they can effectively handle mismatches in supply and demand. The decreasing cost of distributed energy generation technologies and energy storage technologies as well as increasing demand for local flexibility is opening up new possibilities for...

The digital transformation requires workplace innovation: An introduction

This special issue of the International Journal Technology Transfer and Commercialisation contains five contributions. Prior to developing this special issue, a symposium on WPI was held during EURAM18, the yearly international conference of the European Academy of Management, in Reykjavik, Iceland (June 2018), where a number of the articles...

Special issue: Workplace innovation in the era disruptive technologies

Workplace innovation: Theory, research and practice

Understanding social innovation as an innovation process: Applying the innovation journey model

The innovation journey is a process model distinguishing between the initiation, developmental and implementation/termination period of innovations; it looks at drivers and barriers, like innovation managers, investors, setbacks, adaptation, infrastructure. We operationalize this model to apply it to the process of social innovation. Eighty-two...

Measuring cases of social innovation using Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Moving away from anecdotalism towards sensemaking patterns

Social innovation, workplace innovation and employment: Sustainability and the future of work

Exploring the dynamics of water innovation: Foundations for water innovation studies

The urgent need for innovation to address multifaceted and intertwined water-related challenges is becoming increasingly clear, acknowledged and responded to with cumulating sources and amounts of funding. Nevertheless, the water sector has been claimed to be less innovative than other sectors. This Special Volume on the dynamics of water...

Understanding Social Innovation as an Innovation Process: research carried out during the EU-FP7 Project SI-Drive, Social Innovation: Driving force of social change, 2014-2017

A large-scale international project ‘SI DRIVE: Social innovation, driving force of social change 2014-2017” collected 1,005 cases of social innovation across the globe in seven policy fields: Education, Employment, Energy, Transport , Poverty, Health and Environment (Howaldt et al., 2016). From those 1,005 cases 82 were selected for in-depth...

Workplace innovation and social innovation: An introduction

This is the introduction to this special issue of World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development (WREMSD) dedicated to workplace innovation and social innovation related to work and organisation. As technological and business model innovations alone are not sufficient to enhance opportunities for businesses and...

Ex-Ante Impact Assessment & Value Network Analysis for SI: Report Task 7.1

In this report, a conceptual framework is presented to conduct an ex-ante impact assessment for social innovation. The building blocks for an ex-ante impact assessment are goal formulation; developing the relationships between inputs, outputs and outcomes; determining the role of stakeholders to achieve the objectives; calculating the impact;...

Ex-Ante Impact Assessment & Value Network Analysis for SI: SIMPACT Working Paper 2

In this paper, a conceptual framework is presented to conduct an ex-ante impact assessment for social innovation. The building blocks for an ex-ante impact assessment are goal formulation; developing the relationships between inputs, outputs and outcomes; determining the role of stakeholders to achieve the objectives; calculating the impact; and...

Effect of workplace innovation on organisational performance and sickness absence

Workplace innovation is an organisational capability, defined as a strategic renewal in organising and organisational behaviour. This capability may consist of four resources: strategic orientation, product-market improvement, flexible work and organising smarter. Workplace innovation is theoretically rooted in the resource-based view of the...

Evaluation Toolbox: Ex-Ante Impact Assessment and Value Network Analysis for SI

This report contains a toolbox for use with the Ex-Ante Impact Assessment for social innovations as was developed in the report D7.1. This toolbox proposes a series of convenient and useful tools to apply in an ex-ante assessment of social innovation within SIMPACT's policy areas unemployment, immigration and demographic change. We have...

Ex-Ante Impact Assessment & Value Network Analysis for SI: SIMPACT Policy Brief 1

In this Policy Brief, a conceptual framework is presented to conduct an ex-ante impact assessment for social innovation. The building blocks for an ex-ante impact assessment are goal formulation; developing the relationships between inputs, outputs and outcomes; determining the role of stakeholders to achieve the objectives; calculating the...

Social innovation related to innovation in management studies

Theoretical approaches to social innovation – A critical literature review

The SI-DRIVE report “Theoretical approaches to Social Innovation – A Critical Literature Review” delivers a comprehensive overview on the state of the art of theoretically relevant building blocks for advancing a theoretical understanding of social innovation. It collects different theoretical approaches which are conducive to a deeper...