Innovation has a profound impact on people, society, and business ecosystems.

This research line examines how to design technologies and innovations that are not only effective and profitable, but also meaningful to people, society, and organizations.

It enables innovators, leaders, policymakers, citizens, and students to frame and lead innovation challenges in a rapidly changing world that is characterized by distributed knowledge, creativity, and blended human and artificial intelligence.

This research line investigates topics such as community engagement, crowd-based innovation, innovation alliances, the role of creativity in (re)framing innovation and transformation, human and machines creativity, imagination of desirable futures, nonlinear and platform-based business mechanisms to enable ecosystem innovation, collaborative and open innovation.