How to keep a living lab alive?

Mastelic, Joelle; Sahakian, Marlyne; Bonazzi, Riccardo

doi:10.1108/info-01-2015-0012

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“…Mastelic et al [12] suggested to use the business model canvas [13] to investigate the sustainability of living labs that are members of ENoLL. Their research showed that most living labs are in an exploration phase and that only a few have been able to move to the exploitation phase.…”

Section: Living Labsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In order to analyze the sustainability of the Senior Living Lab and clearly identify a strategy for the next years, we have applied the Business Model Canvas (BMC) [13] to project the functioning of the laboratory in a long-term view, as suggested by the work of Mastelic et al [12]. The solutions considered are strictly linked to the functioning of the University of Applied Sciences in Western Switzerland, and a deep focus on this analysis goes beyond the scope of this article.…”

Section: Business-oriented Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Senior Living Lab: An Ecological Approach to Foster Social Innovation in an Ageing Society

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Abstract:The Senior Living Lab (SLL) is a transdisciplinary research platform created by four Universities that aims at promoting ageing well at home through the co-creation of innovative products, services and practices with older adults. While most living labs for ageing well are focused on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), this social laboratory adopts a transdisciplinary approach, bringing together designers, economists, engineers and healthcare professionals to develop multiple forms of social innovation using participatory methods. The SLL is based on an ecological approach, connecting professionals and users in a cooperative network and involving all of the stakeholders concerned with ageing well, such as existing associations, business entities and policy-makers. Three main themes for the co-design of products and services were identified at the beginning of the SLL conception, each sustained by a major business partner: healthy nutrition to cope with frailty, improved autonomous mobility to foster independence and social communication to prevent isolation. This article shows the innovative transdisciplinary approach of the SLL and discusses the particular challenges that emerged during the first year of its creation, investigating the role of ICTs when designing products and services for older adults.

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Section: Living Labsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Business-oriented Sustainabilitymentioning

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Senior Living Lab: An Ecological Approach to Foster Social Innovation in an Ageing Society

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“…Unintended outcomes may happen, for example, where tension between stakeholders arises and conflict causes delay, or where lack of attention to key processes, like elaboration of user feed-back, causes suboptimal results. Attention for (anticipation on) problematic situations is somewhat exceptional in the practical (urban) living lab literature, but it is increasing more recently [61,69]. Overall, there is a permanent need for monitoring the environment and the living lab learning processes for influences that may render the reaching of intended outcomes doubtful and eventually call for reconsideration of means and goals.…”

Section: Urban Living Labs Learningsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These platforms or networks could be thematic, like healthcare or urban agriculture, because of sharing of some specific RRI concerns. At this level, a practical tool needs to be developed that facilitates dealing with the RRI concerns among individual living labs, for example, by adding a new part to canvas methodology [69,73].…”

Section: Preparation Inputs (A)mentioning

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Applying an RRI Filter in Key Learning on Urban Living Labs’ Performance

Geenhuizen

2019

Sustainability

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Urban living labs is a practical methodology in improving sustainability in cities by facilitating collaborative learning and innovation in a real-life environment, thereby mainly responding to the needs of users (citizens). The paper aims to filter a list of key learnings on urban living labs through the lens of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). One of the motivations is that key learnings on urban living labs are mainly derived from means-goal effectiveness (MGE) thinking while the urban setting calls for a broader perspective due to complexity and tension from the multi-actor, multifunctional, and multi-scalar character of cities. The filtering reveals almost 40 learnings as 'overlap' and 'exclusive for MGE'. Importantly, five learnings are identified as specific for RRI and potentially enriching living lab methodology: ethical and normative principles like health, safety, security, and equality between societal groups, and a wider distribution of benefits and risks of living lab outcomes, in particular, contradictory sustainability issues. The RRI filtering causes three practical implications: coping with uneven power distribution between stakeholders, limited feasibility of applying the comprehensive learning framework, and challenges of overarching platform structures enabling to better incorporate RRI concerns in living lab methodology. The findings as presented in an adapted list are new, as RRI values and concerns have seldom been applied to practical innovation and have never been explicitly applied to urban living labs' performance beyond the borders of effectiveness thinking. Sustainability 2019, 11, 3833 2 of 16ICT-based innovations [17]. Since then, ENoLL membership has been granted to 440 historically recognized living labs (Appendix A).Application of living labs methodology is by no means everywhere the same. To date, the methodology has been used in practice with different emphasis on users' roles in finding solutions, prior definition of structure and processes and focus on exploration or exploitation of opportunities [1,18,19]. Furthermore, we mention differences in spatial and organizational scale: living lab methodology has been applied as small-scale physical experimentation spaces but also as networked spaces at regional scale that act as platforms for sets of experimentations using some sort of open innovation [20][21][22]. The common core of the methodology, however, has remained. This paper deals with urban living labs within a 'larger category' of living labs. What urban living labs distinguish, is indicated in the literature as follows: being localized or place-based; involvement of local government and local citizens; acting as locally involved public-private partnership; applying coproduction/co-creation with local actors; and typically dealing with urban sustainability problems [23][24][25][26][27][28]. Urban living labs may include various stages in innovation, running from ideation and experimentation to upscaling and application in practice/market. In urban practice toda...

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“…from the European Union) are increasingly required to serve private markets and thus grant agreements often require a revenue share from private sources (Katzy, 2012). Finally, many LLs do not make systematic use of business modeling techniques, to improve their cost structure, customer segmentation, and revenue streams (Mastelic, Sahakian, & Bonazzi, 2015).…”

Section: Research Questionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How to Make Living Labs More Financially Sustainable? Case Studies in Italy and the Netherlands

Gualandi¹,

Romme²

2019

EMR

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In many urban environments, so-called Living Labs have been created. A Living Lab (LL) is an emerging innovation methodology that may serve to reduce the gap between new technology development and the adoption of this new technology by users, by bringing together all key actors in the innovation process: public administration, education institutes, companies, and citizens. However, a substantial number of LLs struggle to translate the customer value created into a sustainable business model. As a result, many LLs are financially not sustainable. Several previous studies found that most LLs primarily rely on public grants; thus, they often stop their activities when public funding ends. In this paper, we draw on a comprehensive literature review and practical evidence from three cases, to develop a framework of various funding options which can be employed by any LL that seeks to become more financially sustainable.

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How to keep a living lab alive?

Cited by 34 publications

References 14 publications

Senior Living Lab: An Ecological Approach to Foster Social Innovation in an Ageing Society

Senior Living Lab: An Ecological Approach to Foster Social Innovation in an Ageing Society

Applying an RRI Filter in Key Learning on Urban Living Labs’ Performance

How to Make Living Labs More Financially Sustainable? Case Studies in Italy and the Netherlands

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