The Tilburg story of knowledge sharing for social innovation

Last October, I gave an invited talk at the School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, USA. Topic of my talk was “Knowledge Sharing for Social Innovation: The Dutch Tilburg Regional Case”. I published the slides of my talk in a previous post. In the meantime, however, with the help of the good people of Rutgers’ IT staff, I worked on creating an indexed YouTube version of the video recording that was made of my presentation. In it, you can find the Tilburg story of knowledge sharing for social innovation. It contains the slides combined with my presenting them, plus a very lively Q&A with the audience afterwards. In this YouTube video, you can watch me tell the full story. Click here to get a larger version (handy for reading those crowded slides!).

If you want to jump to a particular topic, see the index below the video.

Jump to:

• Introduction
• Wicked Problems Abound
• Social Innovation
• Midden-Brabant: THE Dutch Social Innovation Region
• Transforming Education: Prins Heerlijk
• Transforming Healthcare: Into D’Mentia
• The Social Innovation Process
• Designing Case Conversations: Social Innovation Collaboration Model
• Collaboration Patterns: Capturing socio-technical Lessons Learnt
• Regional Social Innovation Ecosystem
• 2010: Regional Strategic SI Agenda (“10 km”)
• 2013: Catalyzing Social Innovation (“5 km”)
• Need for Better Knowledge Sharing: Catalyzing & Connecting Conversations
• Towards a Regional Knowledge Sharing Living Lab
• Pathfinders
• Social Innovation Award Academy
• European Social Innovation Week
• Storytelling Architecture
• Experiment: Tilburg University Language Center Students
• Storytelling Pattern: Student Assignments
• KnowledgeCloud
• The Internet: Information Tsunami
• KnowledgeCloud: Providing Regional Context
• KnowledgeCloud: Two Interlocking Conversation Dynamics
• KnowledgeWorkshops: Generating Focus, Trust, Commitment
• Knowledge Groups: Continuing the Conversations Online
• KnowledgeCloud Tags: Connecting Conversations Across Groups
• KnowledgeMakery: Providing Physical Conversation Spaces
• KnowledgeCloud: Taking Off
• Building Up the Living Lab: One Pattern at a Time
• Research Questions
• Conclusion
• Q&A 

Earlier, we identified the Tilburg region to be full of social innovations, but still being weak in the knowledge sharing about them. Hopefully, my talk is one of many, many more. Looking forward to learning about your own stories.

Knowledge Sharing for Social Innovation: The Dutch Tilburg Regional Case

On October 21st, I gave a guest lecture at Rutgers University, USA, having been invited by the Communication Department, the MCIS Program, and the Collaborative for Knowledge, Innovation and Design.  Below my slides. A video recording of my presentation, and an interview by the School of Communication and Information with my host, Mark Aakhus, are still to follow.

Download slides here

Abstract

Social innovation as a process is about multiple stakeholders working together on joint, economically and socially sustainable solutions for wicked societal problems. Social innovation both co-creates value for individual stakeholders involved, and contributes to the common good. It has been an important theme in the the Dutch city of Tilburg and the surrounding region of Midden-Brabant for years. A successful regional social innovation ecosystem exists. Knowledge sharing about the innovations remains a bottleneck, however. Two initiatives to increase regional social innovation knowledge sharing capacity are presented: the social innovation storytelling architecture and the Tilburg public library prototype KnowledgeCloud for catalyzing knowledge sharing across regional themes of interest.