D3.10 Innovation Case Study 1: Norm-Critical Innovation

Knowledge production in research and innovation has been shown to be gendered. In response, research funding organisations (RFOs) have launched various policies to overcome/address such biases. Within INSPIRE T3.6, we analysed policies aiming to promote inclusive innovation, with a focus on gender and intersectionality (= IGI) specifically targeting the Business Enterprise Sector (BES). For each of these policies that were implemented in different cultural and geographical contexts, separate case study reports are available: here you can find the case studies from FFG (Austria), EC and FONRID (Burkina Faso).

This report analyses the implementation of the Norm-Critical Innovation Funding Programme—by Vinnova, Sweden’s innovation agency and focusses on the calls in 2018 and 2019. The programme, which ran from 2014 to 2019, aimed to foster innovation by explicitly integrating gender and other inequality dimensions in an intersectional way, challenging normative assumptions in innovation processes, and addressing structural biases.