Creating Collaborative Social Technologies for Profound Social Innovation

Convenor: Colette Dumas

Session One - 9:00am to 10:30am

• Inter-agency Services Collaboration Project
  Joan Roberts & Pauline O’Connor
• Social Change—Making the Improbable Possible Through Collaboration: NGOs Working Together in South Africa to Tackle HIV/AIDS
  Dr. Jane Cooke-Lauder, Case Western Reserve University
• Teaming With the Client: A Co-Production Strategy for Innovation
  Dr. Sheila Webber, Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University
• Declining Relations: Understanding Cross-Sector Partnership Failure
  Jennifer S.A. Leigh, Gettysburg College

Session Two - 11:00am to 12:30pm

• Modeling and Replicating Effective Collaboration: A Case Study of The Harvard Stem Cell Institute
  Dr. Jeffrey C. Shuman, Bentley College
  Janice Twombly, The Rhythm of Business, Newton, MA
• Steering System Innovations – A Theoretical Exploration of Transition Management
  Art Dewulf, Katrien Termeer and Renate Werkman, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
• Innovations for the Bottom of the Pyramid. Looking for the Next “Small” Thing
  Dr. Sushil Bhatia, Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University
• Dealing with the Blind, the Hidden and the Unconscious as Sources for Uncertainty in Adaptive IWRM Learning Cycles
  Hans Jorgen Henriksen, Geological Survey of Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark

Session Three - 1:30pm to 3:00pm

• Collaboration for Social Innovation: The Case of Creating Social Learning Spaces in Higher Education in the UK
  Dr. Christos Apostolakis, Bournemouth University, UK
• Challenging Storytelling in Processes of Co-Operation
  Dr. A.J.J.A. Maas, University for Humanistics, RSM Erasmus University, Rotterdam
• Shifting Collaborative Interiors to Allow for Systemic Change: Using Arts Based Approaches to Explore Collective Experience
  Dr. Colette Dumas, Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University