Evaluating living labs core competences and assets

In our attempt to shed some light on the potential role that Living Labs may play in the future of Europe´s economy, we have tried to document in this paper what to our understanding are the four key dimensions of this phenomenon, namely: a) Operation - meaning to analyse how a Living Lab works, b) Interoperability - meaning to outline the harmonisa-tion and/or integration perspectives in terms of methods, tools, infrastructures, applications, etc, c) Impact analysis of Living Labs activities, services and results on the local, regional and European innovation systems. d) Support-ability - meaning the prospective policy designs and orientation at European, Member State as well as Regional levels. Our conceptual paradigm was based on three concurrent methodologies, namely SNA (Social Network Analysis), MASAI^reg, and PACE, which offered a basis for identifying the key attributes and features of European Living Labs. SNA was mainly used in the first part of the Study, to explore the current connections and interrelations among Living Labs and PACE for the evaluation of the intangible assets created during a Living Lab´s life and operation.