01698nas a2200229   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260000900043653002700052653001800079653001500097653002400112653002800136653002300164653003100187100001800218700002000236245006700256300001000323490000700333520112800340       2020                            d  c202010acompetence development10aCybersecurity10ainnovation10anetwork co-creation10aorganisational learning10askills acquisition10asocietal impact assessment1 aKirsi Aaltola1 aHarri Ruoslahti00aSocietal Impact Assessment of a Cyber Security Network Project  a53-640 v463 a<p>The European Union promotes innovation through its funding programmes for research and innovation. To support the innovation process, one of these projects, ECHO, aims to deliver a Societal Impact Assessment (SIA) toolkit to assess the impact of establishing a European network of cybersecurity competence centres. This article provides an overview of the theoretical foundations on network co-creation and inter-organizational knowledge transfer as learning outcomes, and discusses these approaches in performing impact assessment at the societal level. Literature review on evaluation and assessment, co-creative innovation, and learning approaches are examined, summarized and combined into a learning and SIA-outcomes Matrix. Measurement of impacts through a digital Societal Impact Assessment toolkit can improve the quality of the value creation. Towards that purpose, we offer an approach that combines traditional evaluation and assessment, co-creative innovation, learning and SIA-outcomes in a practical Matrix to provide an applicable element towards a more comprehensive SIA-toolkit for the ECHO network.</p>