The technological, IT and social changes of the 21st century pose new challenges for Europe, including Hungary. A common and recognised link is that the sustainable, competitive organizational/regional/social exploitation of technological and IT innovation takes place in interaction with social/social innovation, creating opportunities and bottlenecks for each other. It is precisely for this reason that the National Intelligent Specialisation Strategy addresses the issue of the development of social innovation as a central issue. The overall objective of the project is to explore the Hungarian or wider Eastern European innovation patterns from the learning aspect, to strengthen cooperation with European scientific networks, to develop new collaborations, by strengthening scientific capacities and sustainable development in the areas of R & D of major importance in the future. The specific objective of the project is to identify domestic and regional social learning patterns and learning defects that are critical for social innovation from an interdisciplinary perspective, in particular to address the human and technological implementation constraints of IT innovations and to enhance the efficiency of the exploitation of innovations. Interlinkages between technological and IT and social innovation, interaction between social systems and organisations are issues that are constantly researched across disciplines. Countless research has focused on the exploration of technology and the process of individual/social interaction, from psychology to legal sciences to IT, mathematical, health economics, regional competitiveness or marketing research. It is an essential lack of such research that they are mostly confined to those questions that can be grasped by the concept and methodological toolkit of a particular discipline, its results can be interpreted from the given starting points of view. With regard to the professional programme to be implemented, it is essential to study from a multidisciplinary perspective three issues that fundamentally affect the innovativeness of individuals/organisations/societies: (1) The impact of technological innovations (notably digitalisation and industry 4.0) on business organisations, employment and the necessary competences The wave of technological innovation rooted in the second half of the 1980s has transformed economic and social behaviour to such an extent that industry can be summed up in 4.0, similar to the scale of the industrial revolution. At the same time, it is a simplification to view this process as a series of technological innovations, as the shaping of society interactively shapes both the technological innovations and the business processes of the future in the interaction of economics, social perceptions and social behaviour. The programme initiated in cooperation with domestic and international partners in three areas to be examined along this issue; it conducts research at the level of social groups, business organisations and individuals. (2) Inter-organisational and network dimensions of social innovation The second dimension of the research programme focuses on interorganisational and network issues of the inter-organisational and network aspects of ICT and social innovation, such as innovation phenomena that are strengthened as a result of the combination of digitalisation and globalisation, but also as self-forming forces. Interorganisational and network phenomena are in a highly heterogeneous form, among which the level of interaction between organisations, groups and states is a focussed examination issue within the framework of this research programme. (3) Organizational dimensions of social innovations The third aspect of the interlinkage of technological, IT and social innovation is the organisational aspects within the framework of the research programme, in addition to those embedded in social processes and in inter-organisational relations. The radically transformed frameworks of the 21st century focus attention on a number of issues that can be interpreted at organizational level, such as the emergence and strengthening of new types of enterprises typical of the digital society, the management of intangible property development, and the radical transformation of the operation of the state as an organizational system. The planned (shortly) results of the research programme contribute primarily to the operation of the organisations of the social institutional system, to the management of the innovativeness of business organisations, to the development of the innovativeness of individuals and to the development of public innovation. The results and planned activities of the programme also contribute to increasing the activity of the consortium partners in H2020, to the development of the R & D management of the participating institutions, to the expansion of the professional competences of young researchers, to their retention, and to increa...