Transdisciplinary collaboration for responsible innovation

Steven Flipse joined the Communication Design for Innovation (CDI) group in 2013. After his studies in engineering in the Life Sciences, he moved towards the social sciences to study how scientists and engineers collaborate and learn. He obtained his PhD in 2013 on responsible innovation through transdisciplinary collaborations between scholars from the natural and social sciences. He is associate editor for the Journal of Responsible Innovation.

Teaching

His teaching revolves around innovation development in complex social systems. He teaches a course on Wicked Innovation in the Master track CDI, and a course on Communication, Marketing and Innovation in CDI’s Minor program. He is also a member of the board of studies of the program.

Research

The primary research question that Steven aims to address is: how can scientists and engineers functionally collaborate with and learn from other actors, while simultaneously embracing responsible innovation principles? His research has three starting points:

Papers on (inclusiveness and) responsible innovation

Papers on transdisciplinary collaboration and learning

dr.ir. Steven Flipse

Assistant Professor Science Communication