Commissioned by: Research Centre for Employability, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences (2021)
Objective: Write a research report based on the Social Innovation Monitor
The Social Innovation Monitor Limburg (SIML) edition 2020 looks back on three years of attention to social innovation from Limburg (the Netherlands) employers. Social innovation means innovations in organisations and new ways of working. This requires better development and utilisation of employees’ competences. This can increase the performance of organisations and achieve other organisational, social or employee goals.
The research on social innovation in Limburg was set up by Network Social Innovation (NSI). In 2016 and 2018, it was conducted by the Research Centre for Employability at Zuyd University and the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) University Maastricht, in cooperation with the Limburg Employers Association (LWV). The SIML was carried out in 2019 by the Research Centre for Employability at Zuyd University and the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) Maastricht University, in cooperation with Neimed, Social-Economic Knowledge Centre and the Limburg Employers Association (LWV).
The annual monitor aims to give an impulse to the optimisation of various company-internal and company-external social innovations. On average, 200 respondents completed this questionnaire on social innovation in each edition of the SIML. These respondents represent on average 200 organisations in Limburg.
Regional Capital looks at the average of the 2016, 2018 and 2019 editions and discusses the extent to which there are differences in social innovation between the sizes of organisations (small, medium and large companies). It also looks at differences in social innovation between the labour market sectors (industry, commercial services and non-commercial services).
In cooperation with: Jol Stoffers (Research Centre for Employability, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences) & Ilse Schrijver (Research Centre for Employability, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences)
