Elke den Ouden
Department / Institute
RESEARCH PROFILE
Elke den Ouden is TU/e Fellow in the Innovation, Technology Entrepreneurship & Marketing group of the department Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences. Her research focuses on new business development in public-private value networks, in particular intelligent lighting and smart city innovations. Since its early days, she has been involved in the TU/e Intelligent Lighting Institute (ILI) and is responsible for the strategy on Living Light Labs. She is also an ambassador of TU/e innovation Space, where interdisciplinary student teams work on complex societal and industrial challenges. She
combines her extensive industrial experience with academic research in innovation in ecosystems, in which students play an essential role.
Bringing societal value with meaningful innovations requires collaboration between organisations and individuals with very different value systems. So we bring together interdisciplinary teams to make many dreams come true.”
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Elke den Ouden obtained her master’s degree in Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. She subsequently joined Philips, where she has held several positions as advisor and manager in product innovation for more than 20 years. In 2000 she joined TU/e, where she obtained her PhD in Technology Management from TU/e in 2006 and became a part-time professor in the Department of Industrial Design in 2008. In 2014 she was appointed as TU/e Fellow.
She is the author of the book ‘Innovation Design – Creating Value for People, Organisations and Society’, published by Springer Science + Business and many other academic and practitioner-oriented publications.
Recent Publications
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Sharon A.M. Dolmans,Bob Walrave,Elke den Ouden,Rianne Valkenburg,A.G.L. Romme
A dynamic perspective on collaborative innovation for smart city development
Organization Studies (2023) -
Shahryar Sarabi,Qi Han,A.G.L. Romme,Bauke de Vries,Rianne Valkenburg,Elke den Ouden,Spela Zalokar,Laura Wendling
Barriers to the Adoption of Urban Living Labs for NBS Implementation: A Systemic Perspective
Sustainability (2021) -
Shahryar Sarabi,Qi Han,Rianne Valkenburg,Elke den Ouden,Spela Zalokar
Handbook on implementation and adoption barriers of Urban Living Labs developing Nature Based Solutions
(2021) -
Alexia Athanasopoulou,Rianne Valkenburg,Elke den Ouden,Oktay Türetken
Supporting the Development of Strategic Mobility Agendas for Cities
(2021) -
Elke den Ouden,A.C. Valkenburg
EnergyMatch
(2021)
Current Educational Activities
- Design science methodology for business and product creation
- Design science methodology for managing innovation processes
- Advancing light for human functioning – entrepreneurship in lighting
- Advancing light for human functioning
- Light and experience
- Innovation space project: innovation through art & design
Ancillary Activities
- Valorisatie van kennis op het gebied van smart lighting en smart cities, alsmede visies en roadmaps - in samenwerking met Rianne Valkenburg (medeoprichter van de Maatschap), Maatschap LightHouse - Fellow at TU/e
- Lid van het bestuur van OVLNL, voorzitter van het Innovatie Platform OVLNL en deelnemer aan het Smart Lighting Kennisnetwerk, OVLNL - Stichting Openbare Verlichting Nederland
- Lid van het bestuur (sinds okt 2016), Louis Kalff Instituut - Erfgoedcentrum Industriële Vormgeving
- Verstrekken van adviezen, verlenen van diensten, ontwikkelen en uitvoeren van projecten, lezingen en publicaties, Elke den Ouden BV -> projecten via Maatschap 'LightHouse Fellow at TU/e'