Social media supported indicators for monitoring and evaluating user driven innovation (SINDI)
Minna Isomursu, Kaisa Still, Seppo Pohjolainen, Jukka Huhtamäki, Martha G. Russell
Sindi is a 2-year research project about social media supported indicators for monitoring and evaluating user driven innovation. The research is done in collaboration with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Tampere University of Technology Hypermedia Lab and Stanford Media X Innovation Ecosystems Network, who also fund the project with TEKES.
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VTT, TTY, Stanford Media X
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Research
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Research Project: "Development of indicators for user innovation and innovation transfer in Finland - InFi" underway
Jari Kuusisto et al.
InFi Research Project - Development of indicators for user innovation and innovation transfer in Finland launched. The project content is described in a slideshow.
An international research group has launched a two-year research project for developing indicators for measuring user innovation and for studying innovation transfer in Finland.<!--break-->
The objective of the project is to:
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Analyze and report the amount of user innovation by individual end consumers;
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Measure the scale and cost (inputs) and significance (outputs) of innovation activities carried out by citizens of Finland to create and modify the consumer goods and services that they use in their everyday lives.
- Individuals
- User groups and user communities
- Analyze and report the extent to which user innovation reveals ‘hidden innovation’ compared to traditional innovation indicators
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Measure the scale and cost (inputs) and significance (outputs) of innovation activities carried out by citizens of Finland to create and modify the consumer goods and services that they use in their everyday lives.
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Develop and test indicators for the transfer of user innovation from consumers to producers
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New valid indicators for measuring the transfer of user innovations to broader commercial markets
- What is the scale of transfer activities?
- What types of transfers methods are used; free access, licensing etc.
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New valid indicators for measuring the transfer of user innovations to broader commercial markets
Research Project: "Development of indicators for user innovation and innovation transfer in Finland - InFi" underway
Demand- and User-driven Innovation Policy – Framework and Action Plan
Demand-driven Innovations -group
The report prepared on the guidance of the Ministry of Employment and the Economy describes the Demand- and User-driven Innovation Policy and its impact on Finnish economy and society.
As part of the implementation of the national innovation strategy the Ministry of Employment and the Economy together with stakeholders has outlined the key areas and action points for developing demand and user-driven innovation activity.
The part I of the report describes what demand and user-driven innovation policy means and why this new perspective is needed. It also points out the policy areas for development. The latter part of the report presents the action points for promoting demand and user-driven innovation.
Demand- and User-driven Innovation Policy – Framework and Action Plan
Creating New Concepts, products and Services with user driven innovation
Tanja Bisgaard, FORA; Casper Høgenhaven, Høgenhaven Consulting
FORA’s report describes innovation activity in Nordic and Baltic companies. The study has found out what methods the companies have used to obtain and utilize knowledge about users and what outcomes the companies have achieved. Based on the research four categories have been identified in innovation activity: user test, user exploration, user innovation and user participation.
Life-Based Design – A holistic approach to designing human-technology interaction
Jaana Leikas 2009
We need a multidimensional and holistic approach to human-technology interaction (HTI) design in order to understand what technology could really offer for people and in what terms it would be welcomed and adopted. To answer this challenge, a new holistic design paradigm Life-Based Design is introduced in this book.
New Nature of Innovation
FORA 2009
A new nature of innovation is emerging. Co-creation, user involvement, environmental and societal challenges are drivers for the change. Global cooperation networks and public private partnerships are increasingly crucial part in companies’ innovation processes. This report, funded jointly by the Danish and Finnish governments, analyzes new emerging forms and new areas of innovation and how governments are responding to the new nature of innovation. The report covers also case studies from both private and public sectors.
