To respond to the notable changes in the field of healthcare, innovation networks bringing
together industry and public sector actors are needed. Subsequently, the orchestration of …

Consumers are no longer mere adopters of small-scale renewable energy technologies (S-
RETs) such as solar, pellet and heat-pump technologies. Prosumers create new technology …

This book addresses the rapidly changing citizen roles in innovation, technology adoption,
intermediation, market creation, and legitimacy building for low-carbon solutions. It links …

Households are increasingly the centre of attention in smart grid experiments, where they
are dominantly framed in a role as 'flexible consumers' of electricity. This paper reports from …

Maker spaces and maker activities offering access to low-cost digital fabrication equipment
are rapidly proliferating, evolving phenomena at the interface of lay and professional design …

The worldwide increase in societal challenges is putting pressure on humanitarian
organizations to develop sophisticated approaches to leverage social innovations in the …

Users represent an often untapped source of knowledge which companies can capitalize on
during different stages of the innovation process. However, identifying helpful users for …

There are several ways in which producers and service providers can help overcome these
problems and benefit from the innovation potential of users at the same time. They can apply …

Designers often design for people unlike themselves. Many design tools and methods have
been developed to support the designers in this task. One area is empathic design, where …

Tämän artikkelipohjaisen väitöskirjan tutkimuskohteena on Helsingin keskustakirjasto Oodin
yhteissuunnittelu ja sen tarkastelu osana laajempaa julkisen sektorin uudistumista …