What is the Research Day? We are pleased to invite submission of abstracts for presentation among other themes on Bottom-up Living Labs, Living Labs for Social Innovation, Service Design and User Experience, Tools and Methodologies for Living Labs, Living Labs and Smart Cities, Impact Assessment for Living Labs at the upcoming ENoLL 4th Living Lab Summer School Research Day on August 27th 2013 as part of the main programme of the Summer School. Read more…

co-creation Living lab Manchester Summer School user-driven open innovation World Bank

What is a Living Lab? 

It’s simple, a Living Lab is a real-life test and experimentation environment where users and producers co-create innovations in a trusted open ecosystem that enables business innovations.

 

co-creation European Commission Living lab Research and development user-driven open innovation

Why Manchester? Obvious choice, as Machester is notable for its architecture, culture, music scene, media links, scientific and engineering output, social impact and sporting connections. Manchester was the site of one of the world’s first railway stations, and the place where scientists first split the atom and developed the first stored-program computer. The City is served by two universities, including the largest single-site university in the UK, and has one of the country’s largest urban economies. Last but not least, Manchester is also the third-most visited city in the UK by foreign visitors.

Arts and Entertainment co-creation Manchester Social impact user-driven open innovation

What is the Summer School about? ENoLL Living Lab Summer School includes several sessions, workshops, lively discussion panels and  on-site visits with the aim of giving the participants a wider insight about models, theories and technologies related to Living Labs and the opportunity to gain hands-on experience from the leading experts on the subject and to network with other Living Lab enthusiasts. On the final day of this years’ Summer School, we welcome the 7th Wave of new ENoLL members to the network, and hold a special plenary session on the World Wide Community of Open Living Labs, with the special participation of the World Bank.

co-creation Horizon 2020 innovation Living Labs user-driven open innovation

On the 27th (afternoon) we will organise a special Living Lab Speed Dating session for Research & Development & Innovation Matchmaking with an eye on the Horizon 2020 of the European Commission. Find out more…

co-creation European Commission European Network of Living Labs Horizon 2020 Living lab Research and development User-driven innovation

Connected Smart & Creative Cities is the theme of the 4^th ENoLL Living Lab Summer School 2013. Here you’ll meet with a wide set of initiatives that support the development of Connected and Creative Smart Cities in Europe such as EPIC, combining cloud computing with Future Internet technologies to provide cities with tools and possibilities for the creation and sharing of ‘smarter’ city services and the Creative Ring, bringing together wikipedians, digital artists, local media producers, fablabbers, arduins, new designers with universities, local authorities and ICT companies in European cities and regions. 

 

Cloud computing Connected Smart & Creative Cities Creative Smart Cities Digital art Future Internet ICT Smart Cities

European Network of Living Labs is the international federation of benchmarked Living Labs in Europe and worldwide. Founded in November 2006, the network has grown in ‘Waves’ up to this day. To this date, 6 Waves have been launched, resulting in over 300 accepted Living Labs. Summer School features the publication of the results of the 7th Wave! See more here.

European Network of Living Labs Living lab Manchester World Bank

0 CONNECTED SMART & CREATIVE CITIES

Connected Smart & Creative Cities is the theme of the 4^th ENoLL Living Lab Summer School 2013. Here you’ll meet with a wide set of initiatives that support the development of Connected and Creative Smart Cities in Europe such as EPIC, combining cloud computing with Future Internet technologies to provide cities with tools and possibilities for the creation and sharing of ‘smarter’ city services and the Creative Ring, bringing together wikipedians, digital artists, local media producers, fablabbers, arduins, new designers with universities, local authorities and ICT companies in European cities and regions. 

 

0 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (EXTENDED DEADLINE JULY 10th)

Within the context of open innovation and user innovation, Living Labs have emerged as an innovation management approach based on stakeholder co-creation and relying on contextual user involvement. Living Labs can be physical regions as well as virtual realities where stakeholders form so-called public-private-people partnerships (Schumacher & Niitamo, 2008; Følstad, 2008; Ståhlbröst, 2008; Almirall & Wareham, 2008; Schuurman et al., 2011). Living labs are built on four key principles: co-creation, exploration, experimentation and evaluation (Schaffers et al., 2007; Pallot M.,2009, Westerlund & Leminen, 2011).

Another Living Labs-characteristic is the natural context for end-users, allowing to capture contextual feedback on user experience. In practice, Living Labs have been put to use for social innovation purposes, giving a voice to end-users to allow to find bottom-up solutions to their own needs & wants, but also for more evaluative purposes, validating and finetuning ‘top-down’ innovations from companies or public institutions. Innovation is considered in a rather broad sense, as it can consist of incremental innovation, radical innovation, process innovation, service innovation, etc. This has led to a multitude of initiatives and projects being labeled as a Living Lab.”

As a rather young and recent phenomenon, there are still a lot of challenges and issues to be tackled by both scholars and practitioners. It is necessary to add to both the theoretical and practical knowledge on Living Labs in order to advance the state-of-the-art of this field. Within this call for papers, we welcome both conceptual and empirical papers.