This project explores how to design transformative innovation policy to support cross-sectoral collaboration — a critical aspect when addressing complex societal challenges. 

 

Specifically, the project aims to investigate how business actors (i.e. companies, investors, financiers) can contribute at regional and local levels to creating conditions that prevent children and young people from being at risk of, or engaging in, serious criminal activity.

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Leveraging Interdisciplinarity to Co-Design Futures

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The project collaborates with researchers from criminology, social work, innovation and design to identify expectations and concerns, as well as enablers and barriers, related to business engagement and the funding of new measures and approaches developed within municipalities or public authorities.

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The results will form the basis of a futures lab, where stakeholders from all sectors, including decision-makers, get a chance to experience alternative futures and explore possible pathways to achieving them using systemic and speculative design methods. 

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Different ways of organising cooperation with business actors are being tested and evaluated by regional and local actors in Stockholm.

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Building and Sharing Knowledge for Systemic Change

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Insights from the Stockholm process will be shared in a national learning conference on November 5th . 

 

The project will generate knowledge that supports the development of a more transformative innovation policy in the area of ​​cross-sectoral cooperation for crime prevention, and explore new approaches to how such knowledge can best be produced.

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Researchers Involved

 

• Lena Talman and Sylvia Olsson, Mälardalens univeristy

• David Sausdal, Lund University

• Susanne Nilsson and Julian Gasson, KTH​

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Organisations Involved

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• Swedish Police, Stockholm 

• Länsstyrelsen Stockholm

• National Operative Unit, Swedish Police

• Förnyelselabbet

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Project lead

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Pia McAleenan, Förnyelselabbet

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