TRIPOD morning seminars on intermediaries, 9th-10th of March
Seminar on intermediaries in energy transition. This seminar features prominent international experts on intermediaries in innovation and sustainability transition. It Continue reading
The Users and Innovation research group is a cross-Aalto team that creates in-depth knowledge on the role of users in socio-technical change.
Hyysalo et al. (2017) The diffusion of consumer innovation in sustainable energy technologies
Consumers support the proliferation of sustainable energy technology in contexts where institutions and technology characteristics are not yet fully developed for the wide proliferation. We investigated how consumer created technology solutions diffused. We found that a over one third of projects were part of “innovative peer diffusion” adaptations and further modifications carried out among peers.
Hyysalo et al. (2016) Diversity and change of user driven innovation
User driven innovation (UDI) is a popular term in policy and corporate circles. However, it is not clear exactly what UDI means and how such practices are used across the spectrum of companies and over the innovation life cycle. We compared 58 UDI showcases in Finnish companies to analyse the diversity of UDI practices and their evolution over time. In almost half of the examined cases, the dominant mode of UDI changes at least once, and in some cases, up to three times.
Hakkarainen & Hyysalo (2016) The Evolution of Intermediary Activities
Innovation intermediaries play an important role in open innovation endeavors. Our longitudinal case study captures the variety and evolution of work tasks and roles of user-side innovation intermediaries during and after a four-year technology project in a living lab.
Helminen et al. (2015) Designing user innovation toolkits
The aim of this paper was to explore the interrelation of the module library and the solution space by using a user innovation toolkit in the context of shopping center design. This preliminary exploration suggests that in order to ensure that users communicate their ownindividual needs, both the solution space and the module library should be opened up.
Juntunen & Hyysalo (2015) Renewable micro-generation of heat and electricity
Science and technology studies (STS) have revealed a wide variety of different “configurations” of renewable energy technologies and the elements of social organization involved in their deployment. In this article we review current academic literature complemented with up to date documents to reveal existing socio-technical configurations of renewable micro-generation technologies.
Launch event 26.3.2015: Codesign Journey Planner
Codesign, UX, Human centred design, and open innovation are proliferating rapidly. Finding a suited approach is hard as there is a method jungle out there. The problem is not finding just any approach, but sorting out which approach might suit you.
Hyysalo & Usenyuk (2015) The user dominated technology era
Users invent new products and product categories, but the assumption has been that manufacturers will supplant users if their innovation is of value to many. The current paper examines Russian all terrain vehicles “karakats” to discuss a case of an era of extended user dominated technology and the related dynamics of dispersed peer-innovation.
