What's SINOVPROC?

 

A renewed interest on the concept of social innovation in the academic literature has emerged, as a way to address the Grand Challenges of the 21st century. However, two major gaps are found in the literature. Firstly, there is a lack of research about the process dimension of social innovation and, particularly, about the role universities might play in that process. Although universities? activities around technology transfer are is well understood, other kinds of university knowledge contributions to drive wider societal development are less well understood. A second gap is the shortage of academic research about the metrics best suited to assess the impact of social innovation initiatives. The two overarching goals of this research project are: to propose a conceptual framework to understand how the process of social innovation works; and to propose a methodological framework to identify metrics/indicators that allow measuring the impact of social innovation initiatives/projects.

NEWS

PAUL BENNEWORTH

It is with great sadness that we inform of the passing of Paul Benneworth. Our thoughts are with his wife Leanne and his children Theo and Martha.
Paul was Professor of Innovation and Regional Development at the Department of Business Administration and Social Sciences at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, and a Senior Researcher at CHEPS, University of Twente, the Netherlands.
Paul was a brilliant mind, a hardworking person, and a very inspiring colleague.
Paul was the external consultant of our SINOVPROC research project and we greatly indebted for his valuable contributions to our project.

 

	SINOVPROC Kick off
	The SINOVPROC Project kick off, in October, 2018

	SINOVPROC Participation at events
	Porto, Portugal: June 26th to 28th, 2019 Braga, Portugal, October 24th to 25th, 2019 Lisbon, Portugal, November 4th, 2019
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