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The KEM agenda

Global societal challenges require innovation. The large-scale and complex issues require a multidisciplinary approach, in which technological innovation goes hand in hand with societal impact. In doing so, the acquisition of fundamentally new insights for, and the application and development of, key methodologies are indispensable.

The Agenda
The Key Enabling Methodologies agenda is part of the KIA Social Earning Capacity (2024-2027). It establishes a broad definition of the concept of key enabling methodologies (KEMs) and presents the most relevant categories of KEMs for mission-driven innovation:

  • Vision and imagination
  • Participation and co-creation
  • Behavior and empowerment
  • Experimental environments
  • Value creation and upscaling
  • Institutional change
  • System change
  • Monitoring and effect measurement
  • Ethics and responsibility
  • Meaning and awareness
  • Data for inquiry and evidence

From each of these categories, the methods available, the scientific state of the art and the most urgent themes and research questions for addressing the missions were identified. Global societal challenges require innovation. The large-scale and complex issues require a multidisciplinary approach, in which technological innovation goes hand in hand with societal impact. In doing so, the acquisition of fundamentally new insights for, and the application and development of, key methodologies are indispensable.

The Agenda
The Key Enabling Methodologies research agenda is part of the KIA Social Earning Capacity (2024-2027). It establishes a broad definition of the concept of key enabling methodologies (KEMs) and presents the most relevant categories of KEMs for mission-driven innovation:

  • Vision and imagination
  • Participation and co-creation
  • Behavior and empowerment
  • Experimentation environments
  • Value creation and scaling up
  • Institutional change
  • System change
  • Monitoring and impact measurement
  • Ethics and responsibility
  • Meaning-making and awareness
  • Data for exploration and evidence

From each of these categories, the methods available, the scientific state of the art and the most urgent themes and research questions for addressing the missions were identified.

View the agenda online (Dutch)

  • Key Enabling Methodologies or KEM's

    For the development of interventions, systems or institutions that shape the process of social change, we use ‘instruments’ that give direction and structure to the way of working. By analogy with the key technologies, we refer to this toolbox, or instruments, consisting of methods, models, strategies, processes and tools, as key enabling methodologies (KEMs). This includes ways of working (together), tackling problems and creating interventions; tools that enable ‘change professionals’, such as designers, policy makers or administrators, to structure their work, provide direction and realise impact. More info about KEMs >

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  • KEMs dialoogsessies

In recent years, the concept of KEMs as originally launched in the KIA Creative Industry 2018-2021 has been embraced by the (top) sectors as an indispensable link in the process of addressing missions. For the Mission-Driven Innovation Policy, there is a need to strengthen the knowledge about and the development of new KEMs. The KEMs have therefore been included in the KIA MV (about Social Earning Capacity) and play a prominent role in the KIAs of the mission themes. This positioning gives the KEMs a prominent place in research programming. For the purpose of that programming, the agenda was drawn up under the leadership of TKI CLICKNL.

Mission-driven Innovation Policy
With the renewed top sector policy, the Mission-Driven Innovation Policy, the cabinet wants to use the innovation power of the top sectors to tackle societal challenges. In doing so, the top sectors are committed to cross-sectoral collaborations of science, applied research, companies and civil society organizations. The Mission-Driven Innovation Policy focuses on five themes: energy transition, circular economy, agriculture, water and food, health and care, and safety.