Creative IDEAS

Innovative Mechanisms for Knowledge Sharing

The Creative IDEAS project is dedicated to impact generation through the design of innovative and highly interactive approaches, processes and tools for knowledge sharing.

Our approach to knowledge sharing is characterised by a participatory, co-creational understanding of KE research. Here academics and KE professionals use their expertise to design and provide a flexible structure and safe environment in which participant experts feel enabled to share relevant and create new knowledge across organisational boundaries.

To date we have supported over 100 small and large companies and public organisations in collaboration for innovation.  Activities focus on the facilitation of interactions across organisational boundaries and sectors with the aim to raise awareness about differences in organisational cultures and processes and how they might affect innovation and change processes.

The project is part of the fourth round of the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF 4).

Project Team

CruickshankCruickshank Leon Cruickshank Open Design and Innovation, User Centred and User-Led Design, Interactive Design, Technology and Society, Design Methodology, Design Theory and Philosophy
HerfurthHerfurth Lorenz Herfurth Innovation, Knowledge Exchange, Design Research, Design Management for Sustainability, Design Thinking
CarrCarr Valerie Carr Design for health and wellbeing, therapeutic environments, workplace design, post occupancy evaluation, community engagement, design for social innovation, codesign
CooperCooper Rachel Cooper Design Management, Design Policy, Design Thinking, Urban Sustainability, Socially Responsible Design, Design Against Crime, Design & Manufacture

Updates

UK Future Infrastructure Workshop

Event2 years, 4 months and 10 days ago
UK Future Infrastructure Workshop

11th of January 2011, BIS, London

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Knowledge Exchange in LICA - Creative Industries

Event2 years, 10 months and 7 days ago
Knowledge Exchange in LICA - Creative Industries

14th of July 2010, Lancaster University

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Designing Company Interactions: Innovation In Knowledge Exchange

OutcomeConference Paper

The shift from industrial age large monolithic companies to a more flexible ‘post-fordist’ model has been well-documented in theory (Harvey 1989) in practice and policy makers (Sainsbury 2007, Denham 2008, Cox 2005). ...More information

LEAD Connect Workshop

Event3 years and 4 days ago
LEAD Connect Workshop

17th of May 2010, Lancaster University Management School

We delivered a networking workshop as part of the LICA LEAD programme in collaboration with Frank Dawes and Becky Gordon from the Creative Industries Unit within LICA. We were responsible for the development and delivery of...Read full update

The NET approach: Social Networking in Action and a Design Cognitive Tool

OutcomeConference Paper

Objectives: This paper addresses social network theory from the perspective of design research to propose a new conceptual approach to understanding and developing social networks. These ideas are embodied in a new strategic tool to help companies appreciate and proactively develop and exploit their...More information

Understanding Design Interventions in Democratic Innovation: a Toolkit Approach

OutcomeJournal Paper

The relationship between society and design is in a period of transition. We are observing a move from the ‘object’ to ‘service’, and from problem solving, to problem finding, to design strategy. In this paper we explore how a ‘toolkit approach’ allows us to both contribute to democratic innovation...More information