Interview Protocol

Texel Questionnaire – Permanently innovate

Target population: people living in Texel older than 18 years old.

This questionnaire aimed to provide an insight about Texel inhabitants opinions, to validate and adapt our decisions regarding our proposals for Permanent Innovation in Self sufficient Texel 2065.

The interviews took place at the center of the village of Den Burg in Texel at 12 of january (tuesday) of 2016 between 14:00 to 17:00. Due to our limited amount of time and considering that the interviews were made in the streets with people passing by, we decided to ask very few and direct questions. Although we do not consider our results to be a sample of the whole population of Texel, we think that they provided good insight for our research.

The interview questions were elaborated based on our research question and sub-questions:

How can Texelaars be engaged in innovation processes

               Are they currently engaged in innovation processes?

What motivates them to be engaged in innovation processes?

What barriers prevent them them to be engaged in innovation processes?

Preliminary questions

0.1 - Do you live on Texel? Yes/No

0.2 - Which village do you live?

0.3 - What is your age group? 18-25 | 25-40 | 40-60 | 60+

0.4 – What is your current occupation?

Questions

The questions 1 and 2 aimed to understand if the interviewee was keen to join innovative initiatives. We used examples that people are familiar with in Texel for them to be feel more comfortable, and more secure to answer the questions. In addition, we wanted to know what are the reasons behind their decisions to join or not these initiatives.

1 – Are you a shareholder of TESO or Texel Energy?

1.1 – Why are you a member? What reasons made you join it? How long have you been a member?

2 – (If not) Are you a member of any other similar organization?

2.1 – Why are (not) you a member?

Question 3 aimed to provide an opportunity for the interviewee to imagine what would be an innovative initiative he/she would like to join, and what would be drivers and barriers that would affect this decision.

3 – Is there any activity or organization that you would like to join?

3.1 – If yes, what would motivate you to join it?

3.2 – If not, what would be barriers for you not joining it?