Samenvatting

During the coronavirus crisis, Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences gained experience with ways of working characterised by experimenting and informal forms of collaboration. This leads to the question what the coronavirus crisis means for the agility and the capacity for innovation of Universities of Applied Sciences. The experiences during the coronavirus crisis can be used as catalyst for the development towards more agile and innovative organizations. Based on group discussions with board members and managers from several Universities of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands and literature about crisis-induced learning and conditions for agility and innovative capacity, five methods are suggested to strengthen the agility and the capacity for innovation of the Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences.