Digital Innovation

The Digital Innovation group do research on information technology in relation to change and innovation on individual, organizational and societal (institutional) level.

The research is organized in four key areas:

Open and Distributed Innovation - We take a broad approach on open innovation, ranging from public good and open society on one hand to intellectual property and business models on the other. Our research focus on the emerging set of openness phenomena that now can be observed not only in the software area but also in for example culture and media production, and R&D (e.g. open access, open content, open medicine, open innovation).

Service Innovation - Services are fundamental building blocks of today’s society and have outpaced manufacturing as the primary driver of the economy. Much of this recent expansion has been facilitated by information technology and the new forms of customer/company/partner relationships that e.g. the Web affords. However, we believe that service innovation is more than just applying IT and approach the field from three intertwined perspectives; technology, organisation and business.

Critical Perspectives on Innovation - Here the negative aspects of new IT-infrastructure as the Internet and web are addressed from a critical point of vies. Several projects here are  related to grooming and child abuse.

Much of this research is conducted in collaboration with the departments of economics and law as well as the institute for innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of Gothenburg. For this purpose a common research platform OPIN (Open Information/Open Innovation) is developed.

We have a truly multi disciplinary approach with group members from informatics, ethnology, sociology, law and economics. The research is  carried out in cooperation with companies and public organizations (e.g. Ericsson, Guide, Netclean Technologies - the IT Crime Section at the Swedish National Criminal Police, Räddningstjänsten Storgöteborg, and Volvo IT).