A fourfold typology of living labs: An empirical investigation amongst the ENoLL community

Author

Dimitri Schuurman;Dominik Mahr;Lieven De Marez;Pieter Ballon

Author_Institution

iMinds-MICT-Ghent University, Korte Meer 7-9-11, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

fYear

2013

fDate

6/1/2013 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

11

Abstract

Living Labs can be seen as a means to structure user involvement in innovation processes. However, in this rather young research domain, there is no consensus yet regarding supporting theories and frameworks. This has resulted in a wide variety of projects and approaches being called `Living Labs´, which leaves a clear conceptualization and definition a task in progress. Within this research paper we propose a fourfold categorization of Living Labs based on a literature review and validated by an empirical investigation of the characteristics of 64 ICT Living Labs from the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL). The four types are Living Labs for collaboration and knowledge support activities, original `American´ Living Labs, Living Labs as extension to testbeds and Living Labs that support context research and co-creation with users.

Keywords

"Technological innovation","Europe","Context","Testing","Bibliographies","Companies","Collaboration"

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE) & IEEE International Technology Management Conference, 2013 International Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITMC.2013.7352697

Filename

7352697