Co-creation & SCALINGS
Co-creation takes place, when a diversity of actors come together in an innovation activity for mutual benefits. This is at the heart of SCALINGS, an interdisciplinary research project that explores the avenues and limits for the wider use of co-creation practices across Europe.
In the last few years, companies, public institutions and academia alike, have recognized co-creation as a key resource to design products or services that are better aligned to costumer and society’s needs.
From 2018-2021, the SCALINGS consortium will examine co-creation practices across three technological domains: Robotics, Urban Energy and Autonomous Driving. The goal is to learn more about out how co-creation relates to the social, cultural, economic and regulatory context it is embedded in. And, to what degree co-creation practices can be scaled up from one city district or country to another.
SCALINGS will be the anchor point for future up-scaling activities across contexts and will serve co-creation practitioners, policy makers, researchers and citizens in the European Union and beyond.
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Co-creation and Instruments
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Co-creation is an umbrella term for collaborative innovation activities between different actors. SCALINGS looks into three different types of co-creation instruments.
The Consortium
Read moreThe Consortium
The SCALINGS consortium consists of 10 institutions from 9 countries. Each of them contributes with a unique regional and disciplinary expertise.
SCALINGS Approach
Read moreSCALINGS Approach
SCALINGS will explore avenues and limits of co-creation. To date, there are no systematic studies analyzing co-creation instruments in different contextual settings.
Technological Domains & Case Stories
Read moreTechnological Domains & Case Stories
SCALINGS will explore co-creation instruments across a range of European countries and in three technological domains: Robotics, Urban Energy and Autonomous Driving.
Inside SCALINGS
Read moreInside SCALINGS
Why did we choose the technical domains Robotics, Urban Energy and Autonomous Driving for SCALINGS?
What is SCALINGS’ vision?
Meet the Experts
Read moreMeet the Experts
Find out which research fields are involved in SCALINGS. For example: Science and Technology Studies (STS), Engineering Responsibility & Ethics, Management, and more.
Work with SCALINGS
Read moreWork with SCALINGS
Are you interested in working with SCALINGS, for example as a Postdoctoral researcher, PhD or Master student?
Project Results
Read moreProject Results
SCALINGS will gain new insights into co-creation practices in different contexts, test these insights in selected projects and develop a policy roadmap for future innovation activities.
Press Information
Read morePress Information
Here you can find material, such as the SCALINGS presentation and fact sheet for easy dissemination and communication. Please contact us for special media requests.
SCALINGS & You
Co-creation and Instruments
Read moreCo-creation and Instruments
Co-creation is an umbrella term for collaborative innovation activities between different actors. SCALINGS looks into three different types of co-creation instruments.
The Consortium
Read moreThe Consortium
The SCALINGS consortium consists of 10 institutions from 9 countries. Each of them contributes with a unique regional and disciplinary expertise.
SCALINGS Approach
Read moreSCALINGS Approach
SCALINGS will explore avenues and limits of co-creation. To date, there are no systematic studies analyzing co-creation instruments in different contextual settings.
Technological Domains & Case Stories
Read moreTechnological Domains & Case Stories
SCALINGS will explore co-creation instruments across a range of European countries and in three technological domains: Robotics, Urban Energy and Autonomous Driving.
Inside SCALINGS
Read moreInside SCALINGS
Why did we choose the technical domains Robotics, Urban Energy and Autonomous Driving for SCALINGS?
What is SCALINGS’ vision?
Meet the Experts
Read moreMeet the Experts
Find out which research fields are involved in SCALINGS. For example: Science and Technology Studies (STS), Engineering Responsibility & Ethics, Management, and more.
Work with SCALINGS
Read moreWork with SCALINGS
Are you interested in working with SCALINGS, for example as a Postdoctoral researcher, PhD or Master student?
Project Results
Read moreProject Results
SCALINGS will gain new insights into co-creation practices in different contexts, test these insights in selected projects and develop a policy roadmap for future innovation activities.
Press Information
Read morePress Information
Here you can find material, such as the SCALINGS presentation and fact sheet for easy dissemination and communication. Please contact us for special media requests.
Context Matters for Innovation
Why do co-creative solutions work sometimes and sometimes they do not? SCALINGS follows the hypothesis, that innovation is affected by context, i.e. how does the local social, cultural and institutional environment, in which the co-creation practices takes place, shape the overall process and outcome of the project? Which countries are supportive or dismissive of certain co-creation instruments? And how does co-creation differ between the domains Robotics, Urban Energy and Autonomous Driving? SCALINGS follows a comparative research design with the goal to approximate these questions systematically. Eventually it will draw nearer to a ‘socially robust’ concept of scaling co-creation practices from one region to another.