What motivates stakeholders to engage in collaborative innovation in the infrastructure megaprojects?

Collaborative innovation has become an innovation paradigm to improve innovation performance and firms’ economic output. However, there is relatively little research investigating stakeholders’ drivers for engaging in collaborative innovation and the relative importance of drivers in infrastructure megaprojects. This research aims to address...

A process model for collaboration in circular oriented innovation

Circular oriented innovation commonly requires collaboration. Yet, to date, circular research lacks empirical investigation into collaborative processes. Collaborative processes are, however, highly researched within strategic management literature, thus offering valuable insights. The purpose of this paper is to investigate, identify and...

A tool for collaborative circular proposition design

Circular oriented innovation aims to address sustainability problems such as resource scarcity, pollution and climate change by (re)designing industrial products, processes, business models, and value network configurations. Although the literature identifies collaboration as crucial for circular oriented innovation—due to the complexity,...

Collaboration in Circular Oriented Innovation: Why, How and What?

Our society faces many global sustainability challenges. Many of these challenges we have either created or exacerbated by not thinking about how the scale of our actions impacts the planet. We have however entered the Anthropocene, an epoch in time whereby human activity is now the dominant force upon the planet’s climate and environment. It is...

Why Do Companies Pursue Collaborative Circular Oriented Innovation?

We investigate why companies collaborate within the circular oriented innovation process. The purpose is to understand what motives trigger collaborative circular oriented innovation, as well as conditions, drivers and barriers. First, we define circular oriented innovation building on sustainable oriented innovation literature. Subsequently,...

How to Connect. Designing a consultancy tool for Philips Innovation Services that facilitates value capturing in ecosystems.

The assignment was 'to develop a manual on how to use the value model approach in practice'. This project was carried out by means of semi-structured interviews with consultants of Philips Innovation Services, informal interactions and several design iterations that, combined, helped me to develop a value model guide. The final product is meant...