Project description
Building capacity for design-enabled innovation in urban environments
Innovation is relevant not only to economic sustainability, but also to social and cultural life. Cities have an intrinsic generative potential for innovation, but often lack a concrete organisational climate. The EU-funded DESIGNSCAPES project aims to upscale design-enabled innovation in Europe through financial support to flagship generative initiatives and capacity-building efforts affecting stakeholders from various domains. The project will adopt a ‘supportive governance approach’ and propose an original holistic assessment framework, fostering convergence among research, policy and practice. Expected results include a city snapshot, an EU catalogue of design-enabled innovations, training modules for local facilitators, policy briefs, e-publications, and a final conference.
Objective
Innovation is relevant not only to economic sustainability but also to social and cultural life. Therefore, the creation of an organizational climate enabling and catalyzing innovation deserves special attention and needs to be explored from a sound operational perspective. Cities embed this organizational climate (Jacobs, 1969) and are by nature innovation generative systems.
It is within this perspective that the DESIGNSCAPES project aims to realize a better uptake, and further enhancement and upscaling, of Design enabled Innovation in Europe, through direct financial support to flagship and innovation generating initiatives as well as a huge capacity building effort targeting multiple stakeholder groups (citizens, researchers, practitioners, innovators and policy makers). In so doing, we will foster the linkages between research, policy and practice and contribute to making Europe a global leader in the domain.
The main features of the DESIGNSCAPES project are the following:
- It builds upon the generative potential of innovation in cities
- It leverages Design Thinking and Design Driven Innovation concepts as blueprints.
- It has a direct and purposeful focus on the scalability potential of Design enabled Innovation
- It proposes an original, holistic, evaluation, replication and impacts assessment framework.
- It makes use of a “supportive governance approach”.
Expected results include: a City Snap Shot tested in 10 countries and 12 cities, a EU Catalogue of Design enabled innovations, Training Modules for local facilitators and innovators, Policy Briefs, e-Publications and a final Conference. Approximately €1.5 million will distributed among 50+ new Design enabled initiatives as required by the H2020 call through 3 consecutive yearly rounds of a 3-staged Technical and Financial instrument akin to the US and NL SBIR program and the SME instrument of the EC.
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- social sciences economics and business business and management innovation management
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.3.6. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Europe In A Changing World - Inclusive, Innovative And Reflective Societies
MAIN PROGRAMME
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H2020-EU.3.6.2. - Innovative societies
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CSA - Coordination and support action
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-SC6-CO-CREATION-2016-2017
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50122 Firenze
Italy
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