OUR APPROACH
We make innovation people-centred, drawing on the social sciences and humanities.
Societal challenges call for place-based social innovation. We open the conversation, setting these challenges in dialogue with local ecosystems, and design innovation with end-users, not only for them. We make social innovation happen by combining the social sciences and humanities with strong facilitation skills, supporting researchers and innovators as they turn strategies into practice. We then measure what changes — turning good intentions into evidence, and evidence into better decisions through anticipatory policy design.
Making innovation people-centred through the social sciences and humanities
What we do
Societal & needs analysis
- Place-base ecosystem and stakeholder analysis
- Socio-economic and behavioural analysis
Engagement and facilitation
- Engagement blueprints
- Design and facilitation of participatory workshops
- Innovation ecosystem development
User-centred design
- Human-centred technology design
- User research for digital platforms
- UX/UI design, user testing and validation
Social impact assessment & technology acceptance
- Acceptance and adoption
- Social impact evaluation
Policy analysis & anticipatory governance
- Policy framework analysis
- Transformative policy and anticipatory strategy design
- Evidence-based validation and definition of policy recommendations
Capacity building & knowledge transfer
- Needs assessment for tailored capacity-building programmes
- Capacity-building and mentoring modules
- Toolkits, guidelines and learning resources
Explore the other areas
Relying on a strong know-how in multidisciplinary research and innovation fields, we transfer results and leading-edge innovation to society, through an integrated process that leverages on effective and focussed strategies developed in three areas