Co-creation in a quintuple helix, the art of including natural environments of society in a living lab that includes different types of stakeholders and monitoring the quality of this process of co-creation. In the last decade, co-creation has not only become a widely used concept in academic discourses …

In het kader van de Slimme Zorg Estafette vond een HApje onderzoek plaats gericht op Health Noord en technologische en sociale innovatie in de zorg. Hierbij werd een update gegeven over de regionale samenwerking van Health Noord binnen en buiten Hanze. Erik Soepenberg, associate lector Sociale Innovatie …

News organisations are in need of creativity to enable their own innovation. Yet “creative autonomy”, the freedom to experiment, to be creative, and to investigate radical possibilities at work, which is conditional to innovation processes, is still under-researched in journalism studies. In this article …

In het onderzoek Verhalen van Waarde (2023-2024) werkten onderzoekers van HvA lectoraat Creative Media for Social Change, IPABO lectoraat Kansengelijkheid en betrokkenen van de organisatie Samen Leren in de Wijk samen om te onderzoeken hoe de waarde van het initiatief op inclusieve wijze opgehaald en …

The development of intercultural competences has become a prominent goal for many study programs in higher education. A widely used frame to measure intercultural competence is Cultural Intelligence (CQ). While empirical research has focused extensively on the development of CQ by means of (student) …

In solving systemic design challenges designers co-create with professionals from various fields. In the context of innovation in healthcare practices, this study investigates design abilities that healthcare professionals develop by participating in co-design projects. We conducted a mixed-methods research …

Experimental Learning and Innovation Environments, such as Living Labs, Field Labs, and Urban Innovation Labs, are increasingly used to connect multi-stakeholders in envisioning, creating, experimenting, learning, and trying out novel responses to diverse societal challenges. With designers facilitating …

People tend to be hesitant toward algorithmic tools, and this aversion potentially affects how innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) are effectively implemented. Explanatory mechanisms for aversion are based on individual or structural issues but often lack reflection on real-world contexts. Our …

Although the contribution of social entrepreneurship to social innovation is becoming increasingly acknowledged in theory and practice, it is less apparent in relation to social work. This chapter aims to contribute to a better understanding of social entrepreneurship in relation to issues of social …