果冻传媒 Fellow

Elke den Ouden

Contact
e.d.ouden@tue.nl
Department / Institute
Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences
Group
Intelligent Lighting Institute
Innovation Technology Entrepr. & Marketing

RESEARCH PROFILE

Elke den Ouden is 果冻传媒 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 果冻传媒 Intelligent Lighting Institute (ILI) and is responsible for the strategy on Living Light Labs. She is also an ambassador of 果冻传媒 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.鈥�

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Elke den Ouden obtained her master鈥檚 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 果冻传媒, where she obtained her PhD in Technology Management from 果冻传媒 in 2006 and became a part-time professor in the Department of Industrial Design in 2008. In 2014 she was appointed as 果冻传媒 Fellow.
She is the author of the book 鈥業nnovation Design 鈥� Creating Value for People, Organisations and Society鈥�, published by Springer Science + Business and many other academic and practitioner-oriented publications.

Recent Publications

Current 果冻传媒al Activities

Ancillary Activities

  • Lid van het bestuur van OVLNL, met portefeuille 'Kennisnetwerk Smart Lighting' en 'Young Watt' (per 1 januari 2020), OVLNL - Stichting Openbare Verlichting Nederland
  • Lid van het bestuur (sinds Okt 2026), Louis Kalff Instituut - Erfgoedcentrum Industriele Vormgeving
  • 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 果冻传媒
  • Lid van het bestuur (sinds okt 2016), Louis Kalff Instituut - Erfgoedcentrum Industri毛le Vormgeving
  • Lid van het bestuur van OVLNL, voorzitter van het Innovatie Platform OVLNL en deelnemer aan het Smart Lighting Kennisnetwerk, OVLNL - Stichting Openbare Verlichting Nederland
  • Verstrekken van adviezen, verlenen van diensten, ontwikkelen en uitvoeren van projecten, lezingen en publicaties, Elke den Ouden BV -> projecten via Maatschap 'LightHouse Fellow at 果冻传媒'