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Open research questions in Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development

25 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,446 Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Monitoring Progress This pathway utilises CS to produce granular, trustworthy data in areas where official statistics are lacking, adding nuance, or cross-verifying government data to enable accurate policy evaluation.

    D4.7 IMPETUS Toolkit · 2026 · DOI

  • Guiding principles - such as regular exchange within the consortium, concrete proposals as a basis for co-creation, flexible co-creation methods, and the transformation of open questions into new learning challenges - underline the value of methodological openness in future living labs.

    Guiding Principles for Co-Creation and Collective Learning in Living Labs: Insights from Designing Physical Activity Interventions. · 2026 · DOI

  • The explanation-building process has not been well documented in operational terms. Then, if you had found insufficient evidence, you would be less likely to be accused of stacking the deck in favor of the original hypothesis.

    Transformative governance for complex environmental problems: evidence from iran’s urban air pollution · 2026 · DOI

  • Yet, little is known about how attention — and subsequently time and effort — towards specific problems and solutions, and their geographical dimensions, unfolds within MAs.

    How the organisation of mission arenas regulates attention away from regional problems and solutions: an attention-based view · 2025 · DOI

  • We argue that especially the hierarchical dimension of problems and solutions remains understudied, creating difficulties to analyse the directionality of missions.

    Breaking down societal challenges: an exploration of relations between problems and solutions in mission-oriented policies · 2025 · DOI

  • The combination of prescriptive and agile project management approaches in such open innovation settings has been relatively underexplored in higher education research.

    Exploring prescriptive and agile management of university-based living labs · 2024 · DOI

  • Yet the role of ‘front-line co-producers’ and how their mindset and ability to cope with the cross-pressures affects co-production remains under-theorised and empirically understudied in the scholarly literature.

    ‘Co-production on the inside’ – public professionals negotiating interaction between municipal actors and local citizens · 2022 · DOI

  • After an introduction to the field of co-creation and a brief description of the heuristic model, its capability is exemplarily demonstrated via application to two selected cases, followed by a discussion of central learnings and implications for further research on co-creation.

    Ecosystems of Co-Creation · 2021 · DOI

  • Co-creation is by no means limited to a modus operandi for participatory science, but introduces a form of collaborative way of working with society in the sense of citizen science.

    Ecosystems of Co-Creation · 2021 · DOI

  • Originality/value The projects described in the paper’s case studies have not been analyzed elsewhere using social innovation frameworks and are valuable in their own right as social innovations worthy of replication.

    The homelessness research and action collaborative: case studies of the social innovation process at a university research center · 2021 · DOI

  • The significance of “scaling up” social innovation is recognised as under-researched and under-theorised and the use of a realistic evaluation approach and the associated development of provisional programme theory address this.

    The Dumfries Arts Award Project: towards building a programme theory of innovation transfer across two social organisations · 2021 · DOI

  • However, a critical reflection on their added value and on how contemporary ‘design-thinking’ approaches relates to the classical idea of public administration as a design science, is still lacking.

    Improving public policy and administration: exploring the potential of design · 2019 · DOI

  • The conclusion is that the FCEs have been effective generators of policy ideas, but that limited knowledge has been produced about the effects of innovative practices and whether or not new policies should be replicated beyond ‘test sites’.

    Turning Innovation into Evidence‐based Policies: Lessons Learned from Free Commune Experiments · 2018 · DOI

  • While much public sector research is centred on why the public sector should change and what changes should be made, little is known about how to encourage the whole systems towards having greater innovation capacity.

    A Conceptual Framework of the Factors Influencing Innovation in Public Sector Organizations · 2017 · DOI

  • The open questions should also help the practitioners become more sensitive to potential action considerations that may require special thought and attention until a firmer knowledge base becomes established in the areas of inter organizational development.

    Open Questions Limiting the Practice of Interorganizational Development · 1981 · DOI

  • This paper summarizes the open questions that must be answered by researchers if practitioners of interorganizational development are to have adequate planning-and-action guidelines.

    Open Questions Limiting the Practice of Interorganizational Development · 1981 · DOI

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