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Thursday TalkResearch Seminar: Ida Telalbasic
A Conceptual Framework for Social Currency Innovation: A Service Design Perspective
Ida Telalbasic, Inst. for Design Innovation, LboroLondon
Thursday 19th September 4pm Inspace, 1 Crichton St.
Early-stage entrepreneurs struggle to find financial access to different types of services that help develop their businesses. In recent research, complementary currency systems have been identified as promising alternatives to the deficit of money for accessing goods and services. The study aims to explore the potential of service design to create more resilient currency services that enable exchange of digital credits between entrepreneurs. The theoretical investigation focused on relationships between complementary currency systems as resilient strategies and sociological interpretations of value exchange. Service design tools, methods, and approaches are applied to thinking towards social currency innovation. The resulting Conceptual Framework for Social Currency Innovation highlights the potential of service design in making services more accessible, transparent, and affordable. Service design is relevant in understanding financial transactions, as it helps to perceive exchanges between entrepreneurs as services. Service design research can contribute to a reframing of issues of unaffordable services by conceptualizing service systems that enable skilled individuals to exchange their knowledge through social currencies. These new currencies make transactions between entrepreneurs possible and the service design perspective makes them more meaningful for the users.
Ida Telalbasic (PH.D., FHEA) is a Lecturer at the Institute for Design Innovation, Loughborough University London and Program Director for Entrepreneurial Design Management. She contributes to research, teaching and enterprise activities in the area of Service Design Innovation and Strategy. Her current research focuses on the design of service ecosystems for entrepreneurship with a focus on acceleration and incubation activities.
