Social Innovation

European Union Projects:

Scientific coordinator, value co-creation and social innovation for a new generation of European libraries (LibrarIN) (2022–25) Code: 101061516.
Distinguished professor, social innovation and services (2012–14) TEKES. VTT, Finland.

Spanish projects:

Coordinator, Social Innovation in Health and Education services (2019–22). Spanish National R&D Programme.
Director, new metrics and indicators for social innovation, open innovation, and service innovation. Foundation COTEC (2018).

Rubalcaba, L., Van der Have, R., Gallouj, F., Merino, F. Social innovation for transforming public administrations (ongoing)
Merlin-Brogniart, C. Fuglsang, L., Magnussen, S., Peralta, A., Révész, Éva, Rønning, R., Rubalcaba, L. and Scupola, A. (2022) Social innovation and public service: a literature review of multi-actor collaborative approaches in five European countries Technological Forecasting & Social Change
Desmarchelier, B., Djellal, F., Gallouj, F. and Rubalcaba, L. (2022) Inside the black box of public service innovation networks for social innovation: A Public Service Logic perspective. European Journal of Services Economics and Management 1(13)
Gallouj, F., Rubalcaba, L., Windrum, P and Toivonen, M. (2018) Understanding social innovation in service industries. Industry and Innovation, 25:6, 551-569
Van der Have, R., and Rubalcaba, L. (2016) Social innovation: an emerging research field? Research Policy 45 (9), 1923–1935
Rubalcaba, L. (2016) Social innovation and its relationships with service and system innovations. In Toivonen, M (ed.) Service Innovation. Novel Ways of Creating Value in Actor Systems. Springer. pp 69– 93.
Windrum, P. Schartinger, D., Rubalcaba, L., Gallouj, F and Toivonen, M. (2016) The Co-Creation of Multiagent Social Innovations: A Bridge Between Service and Social Innovation Research. European Journal of Innovation Management, 19 (2), 150–166