Exploring team roles for social innovation labs: Toward a competence-based role self-assessment approach
A comprehensive literature review including the comparison of 7 innovation team frameworks and a set of 14 competences for SI lab teams, a model consisting of the roles of facilitator, maker, visionary and manager is proposed.
Research
Innovation labs
Social innovation
Innovation team roles
Innovation Labs Competences
Ferney Osorio
Fabio A. Cruz Sanchez 
Mauricio Camargo
Laurent Dupont
José Isamel Peña
Abstract
This research proposes a competence-based role model as a methodological basis for guiding the conformation of social innovation lab (SI lab) teams. Based on a comprehensive literature review including the comparison of 7 innovation team frameworks and a set of 14 competences for SI lab teams, a model consisting of the roles of facilitator, maker, visionary and manager is proposed. Applied to 10 nascent SI lab teams from Latin American universities, the self-assessment methodology provides an interpretative approach for SI lab teams to position themselves with regards to their competence profile and proposed roles, while identifying strategies for improvement.