Overview

Coordinator: Dr. Serdar Türkeli

The Lab @ UNU-MERIT focuses on experiments and explorations in innovation policy research, education & training, and knowledge transfer & outreach activities.

All activities follow an academic excellence, policy relevance and a societal, multi-actor, multiple-value creation and delivery perspective:

A socio-technical perspective which significantly concentrates on complexity, governance and sustainability issues and solutions.

The Lab @ UNU-MERIT:

RESEARCH
- Prepares proposals on innovation and innovation policy research, education & training, knowledge transfer & outreach activities with/without other local, national, international parties (e.g. partners, coordinators, consortia) for acquisition of third-party research funding stand-alone or as a part of research themes and groups @ UNU-MERIT | SWOL, LIOF, Ministries, PBL, NWO, EC H2020, EC EASME, EU COST, ORA, WUN…
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Bachelor’s
- Develops Bachelor’s level courses | UCM 3056 Innovation Systems, Policy, and Sustainability Transitions | UM Sustainability Minor
- Supervises and host Bachelor’s level Capstone projects | UCM Capstone Library
- Designs Bachelor’s level cross-faculty education and research projects | UM EDLAB Honours+ 2017/2018 | UM EDLAB Honours+ 2018/2019 | UCM MARBLE 2018/2019
- Provides Bachelor’s level guest lectures | EUC Rotterdam – Economics of Sustainability
Master’s
- Develops Master’s level courses | MPP IID 4408 Science, Technology and Innovation Policy | EBC 4229 Governance and Institutions in Emerging Markets | SOE4206 The Social Entrepreneurship Public Policy Nexus | GID4408 Innovation for Sustainability
- Supervises and hosts Master Thesis | MPP Master Thesis Library
- Facilitates online cross-disciplinary working groups | MPP Social Innovation | MPP Migration and Innovation
- Provides Master’s level guest lectures | UCV Venlo – Health Food Innovation Management | VUB Sustainable Finance
Ph.D.
- Develops Ph.D. level courses | UNU-MERIT/MGSoG GPAC2 PhD Green Innovation Systems | Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis | Applied Political Economy of Innovation, Governance and Policy Analysis | Tensions, Turns and Policy
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND OUTREACH
- Hosts Methods Library | Q-Methodology | Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis
- Hosts Thematic Thesis Libraries | Circular Economy Thesis Library
- Develops Open Toolkits | Litoscope Accelerator v1.9
- Activities to build glocal (online/offline) communities for sustainability | SITE4Society | Climate Innovation Hub
- Hosts Assignments-as-Products (APP) and Digitally Enhanced Eligible Products (DEEP) Hub: Sparks
- Attends local/national/international outreach events | Make SDGs Yours Maastricht |Act4GlobalGoals Maastricht| Climate Action VU Amsterdam | Climathon Brussels | …