This resource provides a description of ‘proximities’ in impact assessment, building on Boschma (2005) and Knoben & Oerlemans (2006). Proximity dimensions provide a lens to identify and highlight the conditions that enable successful cooperation and relationship building processes, to be translated into practical, formal and social pre-conditions to improve collaborations, interactions and innovation practices for societal impact. In this description based on literature and our experiences at the Evaluating Societal Impact project within EUR, you can read about the method's purpose, building blocks, and how it can be used when establishing a collaboration or collaborative project, to inform or improve the design of the collaboration.

This entry is a three-files data package totaling 987.83 kB, containing files in .pdf and .txt formats.

If you use this dataset, please cite: Evaluating Societal Impact. (2025). "Proximity Lens on Structural Collaborations: A Method for Impact Assessment" (Version V2) [Online resource]. DataverseNL. https://doi.org/10.34894/MNLAWI