Collaborative effort in the Frascati Living Lab

Living labs are innovation platforms that bring together and involve all stakeholders, such as end-users, researchers, industrialists, policy makers, etc., at the earlier stage of the innovation process, in order to experiment breakthrough concepts and potential value for both the society and users. The Frascati Living Lab (partner of the ENoLL since 2006) aims to experiment a dynamic dedicated collaborative platform to support the development in real life scenarios, experimentation and operations of innovative applications involving incubation processes and more traditional applications in sectors such as environment, agriculture and tourism as well as eProfessional services. The paper introduces the basic collaborative elements (users, services and data) and stresses on the relationships among them. Based on a pilot use case for precision farming the experience of collaborative effort within the Frascati Living Lab is illustrated and discussed.