Our Lead Partner Mr. Clive Peckham in cooperation with invited experts contributed to the Policy Breaf of the Policy Learning Platform dealing with Responsible Open, Social, and INNOVATION by providing insight into the SEROI+ process developed and applied in ERUDITE project.
You can read a short outline:
'The European Commission is increasingly pushing for transformative changes, i.e. ‘change drastically how we do things at the level of individuals and organisations to make our society more sustainable’ and adopt ‘an integrated and whole-of-society approach’.
‘Drastic changes’ are deep and significant and can be initiated through top-down initiatives. However, an integrated and inclusive approach requires an open-mindedness in the ideation and design process, with the participation and input of relevant stakeholders to create both a shared path and a common responsibility for delivering the processes that will lead to change.
Open innovation in ‘transformative’ product or service design is stakeholder centric. First, we need to identify the relevant groups who will be impacted by changes and provide appropriate support to them, to understand the potential and scope of the service and define their priorities for goals and outputs. Open innovative service design processes are inclusive environments where all stakeholders can contribute and participate in the interactions which lead to the design and operation of the services and actions in question. They allow each stakeholder to understand and measure the value of their own input and of the outputs they wish to achieve, as well as to understand collectively what the impact will be on the relationships between stakeholders and on the ‘eco-system’ the policy is intended to transform.
Within the ERUDITE SEROI+ process, we are bringing together an open and inclusive design process with stakeholder led social and economic return on investment forecasting, to predict the global and often unaccounted value that services can bring (and subsequently redesign them if necessary). If we want to create our smart and resilient territories of the future, then we must collectively establish priorities and then design the transformative mechanisms and solutions that will add the most economic, social and environmental value, for the people and for the places they are intended to transform.'
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