Authors: Kohlgrüber, Michael
Maldonado-Mariscal, Karina
Schröder, Antonius
Title: Mutual learning in innovation and co-creation processes
Other Titles: integrating technological and social innovation
Language (ISO): en
Abstract: New digital solutions are often lacking integration and acceptance by potential users. Therefore, only a small amount of innovative software solutions is really in use. The article describes a co-creation process by integrating end-users and relevant stakeholders right in the beginning in a social innovation process. Within this process, technology is seen as an enabler of innovation getting its relevance from new social practices of the people using it (e.g. working practices). Against the background of EU funded projects conducted by the authors (GT-VET, GREEN STAR, COCOP, and ROBOHARSH) the relevance of mutual learning processes of engineers / researchers / trainers on the one side and end-users / beneficiaries / learners on the other side will become evident. Moreover, new (digital and analogue) skills of employees have been identified as key for a successful digital transformation. Thereby, this article shows a twofold perspective on social innovation in education: new skills demands for employees and mutual learning processes of developers and users/stakeholders. To obtain needed skills, traditional innovation practices have to be changed by setting up a social innovation process. Such a process design has to include stakeholder and user involvement beyond pure feedback on a new technology. Co-creation means that experience, knowledge and ideas of users will be considered to ensure high usability and impact of the new technology framed by organisational and people related measures. In this respect, the innovation process and the innovation itself is much more than technological functionality–it is a contribution to new social practices and performances of the people that innovate and use the technology.
Subject Headings: Social innovation
Technological innovations
Innovation process
Socio-digital transformation
Participation
Co-creation
Mutual learning
Subject Headings (RSWK): Sozialinnovation
Technischer Fortschritt
Innovationsprozess
Digitale Revolution
Teilhabe
Kooperatives Lernen
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2003/40253
http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-22126
Issue Date: 2021-05-10
Rights link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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