Introduction/Input:
Technological and Social Innovation: Different approaches?!

• Statement from a technological innovation perspective: Matthias Weber (AIT Vienna)
• Statement from a social innovation perspective: Antonius Schröder (TU Dortmund University)

Questionnaire:

Plenary voting by sli.do

Presentations:

1. Contours of a socio-digital transformation approach (Ralf Kopp, TU Dortmund University)
2. Technological support for social innovations (Elena Como, LAMA Florence)
3. New leadership requirements in times of digital transformation (Birgit Thomson, BAUA Dortmund)

Round table / panel discussion:

Outlook: How can we better combine Technological and Social Innovation?

Methods:

provocative inputs, presentations, questionnaire, panel and round table discussion

Anna Butzin (IAT) /
Julia Wittmayer (DRIFT)

Speakers:

Maria Rabadjieva (Institute for Work and Technology, Gelsenkirchen), Bonno Pel (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)

Karoline Rogge (Fraunhofer ISI/SPRU),

Anna Butzin (Institute for Work and Technology, Gelsenkirchen)

The sessions hosts the following four presentations:

“Social Innovation Diffusion between Practice and Field” (Maria Rabadjieva)

“Mainstreaming Renewable Energy Prosumerism: Directionality of an ongoing Transition” (Bonno Pel) “Bridging social innovation and policy mix research: an exploration for the case of social innovation in energy transitions” (Karoline Rogge)

“Social innovation diffusion as multi-local problem and solution setting” (Anna Butzin, Hugues Jeannerat)

The session will follow a ‘classic’ set-up: each presenter has 25 minutes for presenting and answering questions. The last 20 minutes will be dedicated to a common discussion and overall wrap-up of the session.

• Preliminary results of Beyond 4.0 (led by Steven Dhondt and Michael Kohlgrüber)
• Preliminary results of Paradigms 4.0 (led by Steven Dhondt)
• Final results of Shaping Industrial Relations in a Digitalising Services Industry (led by Steven Dhondt and Ursula Holtgrewe)
• Future of research into digitalisation and Industry 4.0 (led by Frank Pot, Steven Dhondt and Sabine Pfeiffer)

Methods:

presentations, conversations and panel discussions

The panel will discuss (digital) social innovations and their contributions to a society in which everybody can participate. Many social innovation initiatives work for (and often with) marginalized groups. These initiatives, projects and networks drive a process of empowerment in which marginalized groups become actors instead of passive beneficiaries. Participatory examples and initiatives supporting the inclusion of marginalized groups into society will be presented and discussed in the panel.

Contributions will address:

• makerspaces and especially “inclusive making” by people with disabilities,
• social robots and their inclusive potential for patients and elderly people, and
• community empowering open technologies with people with disabilities as protagonists.

The panel will discuss the innovative character of such initiatives, and especially the relation between traditional / technological innovation on the one hand, and social innovation / new practices on the other hand.

Main topics:

• The European and global context of how social innovation is necessary to underpin social, economic and environmental sustainability for a viable inter-generational compact
• The role of social innovation for climate change and the environment
• Social innovation for poverty reduction and the promotion of economically and socially sustainable development

Presentations:

• Introduction and the social sustainability perspective: Jeremy Millard (DTI)
• Introduction and the environmental and economic sustainability perspective: Doris Schartinger (AIT)
• First participants’ session: answer and formulate questions/views with your neighbours, then use sli.do or similar to create word cloud/answer simple questions to help guide the session.
• Presentation: Keys to achieve the SDG 12.3: social innovation challenge of reducing the current Food Wastage in the European Union (Olatz Ukar, Hector Barco, Marta Enciso/ DEUSTO)
• Presentation: Social innovation and climate change (Rick Hölsgens/ TU Dortmund)
• Round table / panel discussion (4 main speakers plus 2-3 participant provocateurs from first participants’ session and open Q&A): what are the strengths/weaknesses of social innovation for achieving sustainability and how can these be exploited/addressed?
• Final participants’ session: what can we do personally as social innovators and what can others/society do to create a viable inter-generational compact?

Methods:

Presentations, audience participation, panel and round table discussion

The differences and commonalities between technological and social innovations have not yet been clarified in detail. Thus, the measurement of social innovations is a challenging but important issue to gain deeper insights into the forms and processes of social innovation and their spatial shaping.

This session provides a platform to theoretically and empirically discuss approaches to measuring social innovation at micro-, meso- and/or macro-level from an organizational, spatial, societal perspective.

Introduction: Why SI measurement matters!

• Statement from an social and economic perspective: Judith Terstriep (IAT Gelsenkirchen)
• Statement from a spatial perspective: Simone Strambach (Philipps-University Marburg)

Presentations:

1. Measuring organisational social innovativeness (Maria Kleverback & Laura-Fee Wloka, Westphalian University Gelsenkirchen, IAT)
2. Measuring social innovation in regional contexts (Gorgi Krlev, University Heidelberg, CSI)
3. Measuring resonance and trend potential of social innovation in an early stage (Jan-Frederik Thurmann, Philipps-University Marburg)
4. Measuring cases of social innovation using Qualitative Comparative Analysis: moving away from anecdotalism towards sensemaking patterns (Peter Oeij, TNO)

Panel discussion:

What are the strengths and weaknesses of the introduced approaches to measure social innovation in its different facets and manifestations from varying perspectives?

Outlook:

What are the essential ingredients of an indicator system that makes it possible to observe continuously entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial social innovation activities at the European level?

Methods:

Proactive inputs, presentations, panel discussion, voting/questionnaire

Co-creation describes innovation processes in which different actors work together towards an outcome from which everybody benefits. Taking into account the variety of understandings in various disciplines, it addresses non-linear processes which
involve multiple actors and stakeholders in different phases of the innovation process, such as ideation, implementation and assessment of technologies, services, or policies. Co-creation can involve participants from different societal sectors (enterprises, researchers, policy-makers, civil society), disciplinary backgrounds, or departments of a company.

The session will discuss latest research findings on co-creation in policy-making on the one hand, and in technological domains such as robotics, urban energy and autonomous driving on the other hand. The presenters will reflect upon what can make co-creation successful, and introduce different examples. On this basis, session participants will discuss favourable conditions that support the introduction and scalability of co-creation.

Antonia Caro (University of DEUSTO) /
Artur Serra (i2cat)

Panel:

Aitor Almeida (University of DEUSTO) / Jordi Colobrans (i2CAT Foundation – Catlabs) / Marta Enciso (University of DEUSTO) / Susan Halford (Bristol Digital Futures Institute) / Marita Holst (Luleå University of Technology) / Andrei Po (Vologda Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences) / Andrea Ricci  (ISINNOVA – SHAPE_ID) / Dimitra Simeonidou (Bristol Digital Futures Institute) / Jack Spaapen (KNAW-The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)

Many SI initiatives are incepted, grow and flourish alongside the development of collaborative endeavors that connect different types of stakeholders around a given social need or challenge within a context. The idea for the panel is to discuss the potential of SI to generate these productive interactive networks and ecosystems that have the capacity to adapt, learn and evolve over time.

The panel will invite successful existing experiences of emerging SI ecosystems with a twofold aim:

1. to explore the potential of SI ecosystems to align people, goals, timeframes, andinterests, and,
2. to learn from the main features of SI living models,  for example

• the glocal network promoted by the Urbegi group in the Basque Country, an ecosystem based on engagement and user incentives to develop active communities for the creation of collaborative projects;
• the Catlabs collaboratory, a program connecting living labs, fab labs, telecenters with the official R&i system in Catalonia in order to generate a “universal innovation ecosystems”.
• the concept of ‘nested systems’ for collaborative impactful research aims to promote innovative ways to connect stakeholders in research, innovation, and society to respond to societal challenges; and finally,
• some lessons learned from the analysis on interdisciplinary collaborative frameworks like the SHAPE_ID project.

We would like to discuss, among other things, the innovative character of such initiatives, and especially the relationship between traditional approaches of the R&I ecosystems and the social innovation new practices that are generating interactive SI ecosystems in different fields and contexts.

The low engagement of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in social innovation is in strong contrast to their essential role as knowledge providers, promoters and facilitators in classical innovation processes and as one actor of the triple helix model. At the same time, we can observe that the role of HEIs has evolved in recent years. There is an increasing number of universities developing new paradigms in teaching, research and outreach, demonstrating the huge potential of academia in fostering social innovation.

Against this background, we are going to discuss these questions, among others:

• What are the main barriers for HEIs to successfully engage in social innovation?
• How can HEIs advance responsible innovation?
• How can HEIs contribute to knowledge exchange within an ecosystem?
• What are the other functions of HEIs in the area of social innovation?

Presentations:

• Insights on the Role of Academia and HEI in Advancing Social Innovation and Responsible Innovation (Anne de Bruin)
• Supporting social innovation at a ‘Glocal’ level: The role of HEIs (Mark Anderson)

Methods:

We will use an interactive format to discuss the role of HEIs in social innovation.

Main topics:

• The role of SSH in transformative R&I policies
• Thematic and procedual contributions of SSH to societal transformation
• Social innovation in the SSH impact discourse
• Accountability of social innovation in higher education and R&I programmes

Presentations:

• We need a Fourth Social Revolution, underpinned by SSH, to lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Jeremy Millard/DTI)
• Tracing the impact between university-based research, teaching and social innovation (Isabel Roessler/CHE – Centre for Higher Education)
• A roadmap for research about/for/with social innovation (Ursula Holtgrewe/ZSI)

Panel discussion (audience is invited to take part in it):

Jack Harrington (Wellcome Trust), Ursula Holtgrewe (ZSI – Centre for Social Innovation), Jeremy Millard (DTI), Goret Pereira Paulo (Fundação Getulio Vargas), Isabel Roessler (CHE), Klaus Schuch (ZSI/Moderator)

Methods:

Presentations, panel discussion, audience participation, voting by mentimeter or similar.

Public Sector Innovation Labs (PSI-Labs) are a means to tackle complex, adaptive problems by providing dedicated space, competence and methods for multi-actor, cross-sector cooperation. More and more PSI-Labs are established especially to work on urban and municipal challenges. What is the specificity in organisational structures, innovation processes as well as networks and spaces that PSI-Labs at city-level operate in?

The session participants get to know two different lab approaches in the City of Vancouver and Dortmund and will discuss ways in which ‘innovation learning’ is performed in the public sector.

Presentations:

• Introduction: Governance Labs – Transaction Cost and Added Value in Future Orientated Public Services (Jürgen Schultze)
• Building a Public Sector Innovation Lab in the City of Vancouver (Lindsay Cole)
• Building a Social Innovation Center in the City of Dortmund (Dr. Arne Elias)
• Social Innovation Labs as an Instrument of Collaborative Governance (Eva Wascher)

Methods:

Short presentations + dialogic format with creative disruption