Enabling Space as Sustaining Framework

Successful innovation projects require a framework for their realisation. LEAP is embedded in the interdisciplinary concept of the Enabling Space, which is to be thought of as a container in which the various innovation processes are enabled and carried out. Since all of these processes are essentially not physical but epistemological and social, and thus not directly accessible, the essential approach rests primarily on the paradigm of enabling. This is to say that the principle of the Enabling Space is to provide the framework for the emergence of fundamentally new perspectives and knowledge.

The Enabling Space is a multi-dimensional space, in which architectural/physical, social, cognitive, technological, epistemological, cultural, intellectual, emotional and other factors are considered and integrated. They are carefully analysed in their interdependence and orchestrated for the support of the LEAP process. Each phase of LEAP has its individual character, requirements and needs for a specific atmosphere, which is provided by the Enabling Space.

The LEAP process forms the Enabling Space in which it is embedded, from the very beginning. Such special space, which usually cannot be found in regular organisations, develops in the course of an innovation project and remains afterwards as an integral part of the organisation.