Eva Kalmar is an assistant professor in Communication Design for Innovation at TU Delft. She is investigating the dynamics of transdisciplinary collaborations in the context of mission-driven innovation and technology development. By combining sociology and communication theories with the fields of team science and creativity, she aims to find ways to facilitate effective and creative team processes for socially inclusive and creative outcomes. She is also an advocate for open science practices.

Research interests:

• Understanding, describing and supporting the dynamics of inter- and transdisciplinary multisector innovation teams from the perspective of creativity and team science
• Systems perspective on innovation ecosystems, overview of the individual, team and organisation layers of innovation networks
• Social scientific research methods
• Bringing design methods into the collaboration readiness measurements
• Open Science and Virtual Research Environments as collaboration-supporting tools
• Using sociology, collaboration and communication theories to design better collaborations

Keywords:

• Transdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, cross-sector collaborations; Team dynamics in collaboration; Collaboration readiness; Collaborative problem solving

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