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1. Nachhaltigkeit
2. News: 3/21/2024
Students present ideas for sustainable reusable solutions

develop socially innovative ideas on how this so-called "obligation to offer reusable containers" can be implemented sustainably. "The Social Research Center has been researching social innovations for years [...] years. This means that social challenges can also be solved by establishing new practices," explains Marthe Zirngiebl from the Social Research Center (sfs). "In order to develop, test and disseminate ideas [...] the "Smash the Box Challenge" was funded as an innovative teaching project by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the "Society of Innovation" program. Since October 2023, the student teams …
1. Fakultät Sowi
2. News: 11/19/2020
SOWI colloquium on 08.12.2020 with a lecture by Professor Dr. Jürgen Howaldt

PM Professor Dr. Jürgen Howaldt »The importance of social innovations for innovation research in the social sciences« Zoom Meeting: https://tu-dortmund.zoom.us/s/96816786580 SAVE THE DATE 12. Januar 2021 [...] As part of the social science colloquium in the winter semester 2020/21, professors of the faculty will present current contributions from their own research. Next Colloquium 08.12.2020, 6.00 - 7.30 PM [...] Changing academic work in the context of governance reforms 09. Februar 2021 Prof. Dr. Martina Brandt Social inequality, care and well-being in old age: A look at current projects …
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Transformative governance in cities and regions - sfs

level of cities and regions in Germany. The starting point is the concept of social innovation, understood as a new social practice. There is a particular focus on the fields of action of climate protection [...] of cities and regions. This can be overcome not only through technological innovations, but above all through social innovations. To address this problem, we are developing and testing new procedures and [...] action to combat climate change and its impacts) Central questions How can the concepts of social innovation and transformation research be linked? How can municipal processes be steered towards sustainability …
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Research- Social Research Center (sfs)

Our understanding of research A key focus of the Social Research Center's work is active participation in social and technological innovation processes. Improving the ability of people and their organizations [...] each case is an indispensable component in the sustainable management of change and innovation processes. At the Social Research Center Dortmund, the examination of new forms of knowledge generation, in [...] intensive examination of networks as engines of modernization and innovation, which entailed considerable consequences for the social science's self-understanding and its methodology. The institute has …
1. sfs
2. News: 1/18/2021
SIKE student workshops on the topic of social start-ups

such as Design Thinking and Problem Tree. Links SIKE | Social Innovation through Knowledge Exchange | Homepage Social Impact Berlin | Homepage Innovation-Lab Bochum | Homepage [...] business, who were provided with information on the topic of social entrepreneurship by inputs from Franka Blumrich and Florian Birk from Social Impact Berlin and a contribution from Prof. Dr. Roland Schöttler [...] idea to the social start-up” was about the practical (further) development of ideas. The Centre for Entrepreneurship and Transfer (CET) , the Worldfactory of the Ruhr University Bochum , Social Impact Berlin …
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Participation - Social Research Centre (sfs)

labour and social policy options to achieve maximum social benefit. With the opening up of enterprise boundaries in innovation processes (open innovation; co‑creation), a broad spectrum of new social practices [...] involved can be found in the following congress volume „Innovations for Society – New Ways and Methods for Unfolding the Potential of Social Innovations“ . At the company level, the debate is currently dominated [...] empirical work of the Social Research Center Dortmund (Sozialforschungsstelle, sfs). At the European level, the Social Research Center Dortmund is involved in the European Workplace Innovation Network (EUWIN) …
1. TU Dortmund
2. News: 3/21/2024
Students Present Ideas for Sustainable, Reusable Solutions

were invited to develop socially innovative ideas in the “Smash the Box Challenge” on how this so-called “reusable offer obligation” can be implemented sustainably. “The Social Research Center Dortmund [...] Dortmund has been researching social innovations for years. This means that social challenges can also be solved by establishing new practices,” explains Marthe Zirngiebl from the sfs. “In order to develop, test [...] the “Smash the Box Challenge” was funded as an innovative teaching project by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the “Society of Innovations” program. Coaching and workshops Since October …
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About us - Social Research Centre (sfs)

the Social Research Center Dortmund has been a scientific institution of the new Department of Social Sciences . The overarching guiding theme of the sfs' research work is social science innovation research [...] ecologically and socially sustainable development. The sfs is involved in shaping social, technological and ecological processes of change and innovation. The Social Research Center Dortmund can look back on [...] research. It examines how social innovations arise and how they relate to technological innovations. Another focus is on the question of the conditions and perspectives for realising economically, ecologically …
1. TIE
2. News: 9/7/2021
New study on how social media can foster the development of radical innovations

been recently published in the International Journal of Innovation Management, reveals that firms who are able to leverage social media tools innovate more radically. This finding holds especially true if [...] show that frequent users of social media may be more susceptible to the systemic challenges of social media (e.g., echo chambers), which in turn dampens the ability to innovate radically. You can access [...] With the advent of digital technologies such as social media, the opportunities to use external knowledge for a company's open innovation activities have expanded significantly. A new study by Prof. Dr …
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Courses in English

regional and national innovation systems. In addition, the embedding of innovation processes in different social innovation fields is discussed and factors that promote and inhibit innovation are analyzed. An [...] attention is paid to social theories that focus on the connection between innovation, social change and social transformation and analyze the interaction between technological and social aspects. At the same [...] results of social science innovation research as well as its history and development. Special attention is paid to theories that focus on the connection between innovation, social change and social transformation …