Legitimation of Newness and Its Impact on EU Agenda for Change

Project Information

LNETN

Grant agreement ID: 860364

DOI

10.3030/860364

Project closed

EC signature date 9 August 2019

Start date 1 January 2020

End date 30 June 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 4 350 760,56

EU contribution

€ 4 350 760,56

Coordinated by

AALBORG UNIVERSITET
Denmark

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - LNETN (Legitimation of Newness and Its Impact on EU Agenda for Change)

Reporting period: 2022-01-01 to 2024-06-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

PROBLEM ADDRESSED
UNCERTAINTY and NEWNESS define the scope of LNETN. UNCERTAINTY defined as any lack of sure knowledge about the course of past, present, future, or hypothetical events. NEWNESS defined as new ventures, business ideas, products, technology, industry or sector, policy, forms of organizing, categories, and organization practices. The problem LNETN addresses is defined by the PARADOX OF NEWNESS under uncertainty in various contexts. On one side, newness under uncertainty has a high potential for HIGH INNOVATIVE POWER. On the other, newness has a high potential for a NEGATIVE SOCIAL IMPACT.

IMPORTANCE FOR SOCIETY
Extant challenges in conveying and effecting innovation, change and coherence in policy development in the EU and globally support the assertion that legitimation of newness is under-researched and misinterpreted. In our society of rapid change, seeking to cope with complex, large scale new challenges to economic, social and political development, the urgent need for new legitimation perspectives, theories, approaches and methods to address how best to interpret and respond to newness, committing to and ensuring a positive social impact is still there.

OVERALL OBJECTIVE
To address how to best interpret and respond to newness.

MAIN OBJECTIVES
To establish a unique doctoral training and research European and International Training Network in an intense learning environment for the training of 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) with three core training features: (1) theory building; (2) quadruple-i (inter-disciplinary, inter-sectoral, inter-technology and international) research and training; and (3) high level transferable and subject specific skills for future leaders;
To form a generation of entrepreneurial researchers/practitioners committed to and capable of exploiting and communicating synergies between different perspectives of newness, legitimacy and theory building to optimize innovation and contribute to European economic, social and political growth;
To produce 15 innovative, legitimation of newness and theory building research projects (doctoral theses) and 15 White Papers (policy papers), mentored by non-academic partners adopting Industrial Doctorate approach, addressing contemporary real world challenges involving non-academic partners, to develop a community of highly skilled, innovative, impact focused legitimation of newness and theory building research scientists in Europe, bridging practice and theory.

RESEARCH THEMES
Legitimation of (1) new institutions and policies; (2) new industries and new ventures; (3) new organizing forms and new practices; (4) newness in modern and traditional contexts.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

NETWORK TRAINING
Generic and Academic Transferable Skills (5ECTS)
Theorising and Theory Building (5ECTS)
Legitimation of New Organizing Forms and New Practices: Scenario Planning (5ECTS)
Legitimation of New Institutions and Policies (5ECTS)
Legitimation of New Industries and International New Ventures (5ECTS)
Legitimation of New Organizing Forms and New Practices: Business Modelling (5ECTS)
Legitimation of Newness in Modern and Traditional Contexts (5ECTS)
Co-creation Annual Network Conference Summer Schools (2 summer schools)
Legitimation of Newness Conference & Doctoral Colloquium

SECONDMENTS
Completed (10month/ESR)

PUBLICATIONS
80 journal articles & book chapters (published, under review, submitted)

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
101 international conferences

COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION
45 workshops and 151 other events

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

PHD THESES
Competing for legitimation by Jackson Kinyanjui (Halmstad University/HH)
International growth in life sciences: The influence of new institutions and policies on the emergence of new product concepts by Manoella Ramos (HH)
Legitimation process of new actors and new business-policy partnerships by Luiza Stein (HH)
Fluid ethics and legitimation of newness by Olga Pojiltov (Aalborg University/AAU)
21st Century energy and legitimation of new industries: Innovating for and legitimating the Bio-economy – actors and factors in the European Energy Sector by Goncalo Rodrigues (University of Glasgow/UOG)
Innovating for and legitimating FinTech: An ethnographic study of European blockchain communities by Felix Honecker (UOG)
Enterprise and the Internet of Things: Legitimating new business models in the 21st Century by Aastha Pandey (UOG)
Smart energy: Challenges of newness. Legitimacy and business models in the emerging electric commercial vehicle ecosystem by Rashid Sadeghian Dehkordi (University of Oulu/UOULU)
Styles of representation of newness and change in creative industries: Legitimacy of innovations in haute cuisine by Deniz Dönmez (HH)
Moving beyond technology frontiers. Legitimacy of local 5G and 6G mobile communications networks: an ecosystem and business model perspective to regulation by Oxana Gisca (UOULU)
Analysis of change narratives and diffusion. The paradoxical interaction of legitimation and change by Cristian Ziliberberg (AAU)
Developing 21st century platform business models: Human-centred approach to personal data management by Julia Helena Zhang (UOULU)
Dawn of the human-centric personal data market. Exploring the effects of human-centered personal data on new ecosystemic business models in a healthcare context by Aigerim Dairabekova (UOULU)
Brexit, new Europe and newness Chasm: Cross-channel conceptualization of newness and tradition. Offensive and defensive legitimation – perceptions at the interface between the organisational and the socio-political by Louis Lines (AAU)
Disrupting the Disrupters: Strategies of successful innovative survival in traditional industries by Saurav Kumar (AAU)

WHITE PAPERS
Toward an EU Online Gambling Policy by Jackson Kinyanjui
Global Reach: Policies for Launching International New Products in the Life Sciences Industry by Manoella Ramos
Building legitimacy of new public policy frameworks targeting innovation and new industrial development by Luiza Stein
The multiple layers of vertical farming: Reflections on policy by Olga Pojiltov
Acceleration of the green transition by Gonçalo Rodrigues
Supporting the creation and growth of IoT based new ventures by Aastha Pandey
Inspiring grassroots support for the adoption of socially productive Fintech solutions by Felix Honecker
Electrifying the future of road transport: A proposal for heavy-duty electric trucks by Rashid Dehkordi
Creating and supporting sustainable food value chains via stakeholder groups by Deniz Dönmez
Toward legitimacy of local 5G/6G mobile communication businesses by Oxana Gisca
Entrepreneurship under uncertainty: legitimating risk-taking and failure in conditions of change by Cristian Ziliberberg
Accelerating legitimation of platform business models based on human-centric data management. Reflections from the GDPR implementation by Julia Helena Zhang
Dawn of the Human-Centric Personal Data Market by Aigerim Dairabekova
Legitimacy threat mitigation – an EU strategy by Louis Lines
Looking beyond cryptocurrencies: Categorizing blockchain's transformative potential by Saurav Kumar

Note: A White Paper is part of an ESR thesis and published immediately after a VIVA on the European Commission 'Fit for Future' Platform. Here are examples of such publications:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say-simplify/suggestions/S32938519_en
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say-simplify/suggestions/S32947130_en

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