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Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development

Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development is a research topic within Management of Technology and Innovation. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1955. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the concept of Living Labs, which are open-innovation networks that employ user-centric and participatory design methodologies to drive innovation, particularly in the public sector and urban environments. The papers explore topics such as open innovation, user engagement, co-creation, policy innovation, and the development of information and communication technology (ICT) within the context of Living Labs.

  • Open Innovation
  • User-Centric Design
  • Participatory Design
  • Public Sector Innovation
  • Urban Living Labs
  • Co-Creation
  • Innovation Methodologies
  • Policy Innovation
  • User Engagement
  • ICT Development
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1955
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development

Which countries lead Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (678 and 427 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 678 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 427 works
  3. 3 Italy 404 works
  4. 4 Germany 385 works
  5. 5 Brazil 255 works
  6. 6 China 231 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 230 works
  8. 8 Spain 217 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 210 works
  10. 10 Australia 192 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 21.0%United Kingdom: 13.2%Italy: 12.5%Germany: 11.9%6 others listed: 41.3%21%largest
United States678 · 21.0%United Kingdom427 · 13.2%Italy404 · 12.5%Germany385 · 11.9%6 others listed1,335 · 41.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development research?

By volume in 2022-now, Politecnico di Milano publishes the most Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development research, followed by Aalborg University and Delft University of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 77 works
  2. 2 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 38 works
  3. 3 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 35 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 34 works
  5. 5 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 34 works
  6. 6 Aalto UniversityFinland 24 works
  7. 7 Roskilde UniversityDenmark 23 works
  8. 8 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 23 works
  9. 9 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 22 works
  10. 10 Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development include Florian Fischer, James Thomas and Aziz Sheikh.

  1. 1 Florian Fischer Germany 257k citations
  2. 2 James Thomas United Kingdom 242k citations
  3. 3 Aziz Sheikh United Kingdom 214k citations
  4. 4 J. Mueller France 178k citations
  5. 5 Mike J Clarke United Kingdom 175k citations
  6. 6 James F. Sallis United States 169k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development?

The most cited paper in Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development is "Co-creation and the new landscapes of design" (Elizabeth Sanders, Pieter Jan Stappers, 2008), with 5,349 citations. Next come "Smart Cities: Definitions, Dimensions, Performance, and Initiatives" (3,528) and "Conceptualizing smart city with dimensions of technology, people, and institutions" (2,795).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Co-creation and the new landscapes of design Elizabeth Sanders, Pieter Jan Stappers · CoDesign 22 Feb 2008 5,349
2 Smart Cities: Definitions, Dimensions, Performance, and Initiatives Vito Albino, Umberto Berardi, Rosa Maria Dangelico · Journal of Urban Technology 2 Jan 2015 3,528
3 Conceptualizing smart city with dimensions of technology, people, and institutions Taewoo Nam, Theresa A. Pardo Conference paper 12 Jun 2011 2,795
4 Open Innovation: The New Imperative For Creating and Profiting From Technology Stefano Mazzocchi · Innovation Dec 2004 2,673
5 Understanding Smart Cities: An Integrative Framework Hafedh Chourabi, Taewoo Nam, Shawn Walker et al. Conference paper 2012 2,544
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Where is Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development research done?

The largest centres of Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Milan (Italy), Melbourne (Australia) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Roskilde and Espoo.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 104 works
  2. 2 MilanItaly 95 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 55 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 51 works
  5. 5 OsloNorway 46 works
  6. 6 MadridSpain 45 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 44 works
  8. 8 CopenhagenDenmark 44 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 43 works
  10. 10 RomeItaly 42 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RoskildeDK · 24.2 works26×
  2. EspooFI · 33.5 works13×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development?

Among universities, judged by research, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Wageningen University & Research and Utrecht University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 21.41%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Utrecht UniversityEindhoven University…Erasmus University R…Wageningen Universit…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 68.324.5%6.0×16 +23.6%
2Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 67.721.8%8.7×16 +31.9%
3Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 67.025.1%5.3×20 -13.2%
4Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands 63.124.9%8.8×16 +24.7%
5Politecnico di MilanoItaly 60.75.8%20.9×77 +41.5%
6Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 60.422.4%10.1×35 -28.1%
7Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia 60.429.7%9.4×16 +2.2%
8Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 58.122.7%6.8×14 +73.9%
9Tampere UniversityFinland 56.718.9%11.7×18 +39.7%
10University College LondonUnited Kingdom 56.518.3%2.7×22 +31.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development, country by country

Is Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development10.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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