Projects In this section the research projects for Trans-sectoral Innovation are listed. The current projects can be found below. The completed research and future research are listed in de subsections. The future research project proposals have been formulated because they are important for the Trans-sectoral Innovation theme. These projects have not yet been assigned to specific researchers. If you are interested, please see these Research vacancies. Edgar van Boven Title: Trans-sectoral Innovation Framework Description: Society and economy are divided into sectors (e.g. healthcare, education and transport). Governmental laws and regulation control the game, founded on economic rules. Sectors and ministries tend to function as monoliths. Today increasing complexity and work stress discourage a bridging process. Are we grinding to a halt? From a novel network vision and experience from the ICT world, this thesis focuses on a Trans-sectoral innovation process, taking the Netherlands as an example. Antonio Madureira Title: Information Networks from an Evolutionary Holonic Perspective: Value Assessment, Service Design and Infrastructure Interoperability. Description: coming soon. Noor Huijboom Title: Social Capital and ICT adoption in Government. Description: The subject of my thesis is innovation adoption in government. During my work as a consultant and later on as a researcher I got increasingly interested in factors that drive governmental change. During the projects I conducted I saw government practitioners grappling with new societal demands: how to address those in innovative ways, how to change existing practices and to overcome barriers to change? After an extensive literature study I found that the contemporary literature on innovation in government is predominantly focussed on organisational and managerial theories. That is why I decided to try to unravel the socio-cultural side of innovation in the public sector. Consequently, the overall research question of my thesis is: which social-cultural factors influence innovation adoption in governments?
In this section the research projects for Trans-sectoral Innovation are listed. The current projects can be found below. The completed research and future research are listed in de subsections.
The future research project proposals have been formulated because they are important for the Trans-sectoral Innovation theme. These projects have not yet been assigned to specific researchers. If you are interested, please see these Research vacancies.
Edgar van Boven
Title: Trans-sectoral Innovation Framework
Description: Society and economy are divided into sectors (e.g. healthcare, education and transport). Governmental laws and regulation control the game, founded on economic rules. Sectors and ministries tend to function as monoliths. Today increasing complexity and work stress discourage a bridging process. Are we grinding to a halt? From a novel network vision and experience from the ICT world, this thesis focuses on a Trans-sectoral innovation process, taking the Netherlands as an example.
Antonio Madureira
Title: Information Networks from an Evolutionary Holonic Perspective: Value Assessment, Service Design and Infrastructure Interoperability.
Description: coming soon.
Noor Huijboom
Title: Social Capital and ICT adoption in Government.
Description: The subject of my thesis is innovation adoption in government. During my work as a consultant and later on as a researcher I got increasingly interested in factors that drive governmental change. During the projects I conducted I saw government practitioners grappling with new societal demands: how to address those in innovative ways, how to change existing practices and to overcome barriers to change? After an extensive literature study I found that the contemporary literature on innovation in government is predominantly focussed on organisational and managerial theories. That is why I decided to try to unravel the socio-cultural side of innovation in the public sector. Consequently, the overall research question of my thesis is: which social-cultural factors influence innovation adoption in governments?