InnoLab

Innovation and Entrepreneurship InnoLab is a phenomenon-based, multidisciplinary open research platform of the University of Vaasa with a focus on open and user innovation, entrepreneurship, and public sector innovation and renewal. InnoLab also encourages the application of citizen science, open science, and design thinking.

The goal of InnoLab is to do societally impactful research and to promote new ways of doing science through inclusion, creativity, reduced hierarchies, and active citizens. InnoLab invests in dynamic cooperation with its external partners and in communication that is interesting and inviting to all types of audiences.

InnoLab research

InnoLab conducts research in three thematic clusters:

1) Systems & Society
2) Transformational Innovation
3) Consumer & User-centric Innovation

Each theme comprises a variety of InnoLab-affiliated researchers and projects.
You can find out more about the themes by following the links below.

Systems & Society

Transformational Innovation

Consumer & User-centric Innovation

News and events

24.08.2023 Society

University of Vaasa becomes a member of the leading innovation policy studies network in Europe

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08.11.2022 Co-creation

Mission-oriented innovation policy intends to shape society – University of Vaasa investigates whether inclusion could improve policy acceptability

15.06.2022 Education

User and open innovation study module at the University of Vaasa

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Projects

Project	Duration	Actors
Energy and transport poverty in Finnish rural areas (MaaElli)	05/2023 - 02/2025	InnoLab
Nature as part of the youth hyte services (LuontoHYTE )	04/2023 - 10/2025	InnoLab
NATUREACH – Nature Reachable for all	01/2023 - 12/2025	InnoLab, Digital Economy, Administrative Sciences, Marketing and Communication
MISS – Practising mission-oriented innovation policy	10/2022 - 09/2024	SC-Research, Technology and Innovations, InnoLab, Administrative Sciences, Management
Media Pluralism Monitor 2022	08/2022 - 12/2022	InnoLab
Digitally mediated decarbon communities in energy transition (DigiDecarbon)	01/2022 - 12/2024	InnoLab, Technology and Innovations, Marketing and Communication, Networked value systems NeVS, Strategic business development
Brothers from a different mother? How businesses and public sector organizations develop leadership competencies and change processes for blockchain implementation (BizPub)	02/2021 - 12/2022	InnoLab, Technology and Innovations, Management, Marketing and Communication, Networked value systems NeVS, International business and marketing, Human resource management
A Roadmap OUT of mEdical deserts into supportive Health WorkForce initiatives and policies (ROUTE-HWF)	02/2021 - 01/2024	InnoLab, Administrative Sciences
Managing Transition Risks in Risk Bearing Value Chains (T-Risk)	01/2021 - 12/2023	InnoLab
ELVIS - Evolving innovation space, RDI policies and impact evaluation	09/2020 - 08/2022	InnoLab

InnoLab activities

InnoLab hosts events and participates in a variety of outreach activities. These include topical seminars, panel debates, workshops, technical and societal hackathons, and networking events that bring together academics across disciplines and experts from different fields (e.g. business, media and politics).

InnoLab is passionate about making research visible and accessible to all. We value, encourage and support science communication in all forms and fora.

InnoLab Facebook

InnoBabble blog

InnoLab members participate actively in conferences such as Eu-SPRI Conference, DRUID Conference, ISPIM Innovation Conference, R&D Management Conference, Sustainability Science Days, EGPA, IRSPM, Transformative Consumer Research Conference, Consumer Culture Theory Conference, Cryptocurrency Research Conference, International Sustainability Transitions Conference, STS conference, Nordic STS, and Academy of Management.