Introducing Students to Community Operations Research by Using a City Neighborhood As A Living Laboratory

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Towards innovation in Living Labs networks

“…It is grounded on the collective design and production of goods and knowledge (Calanstone and Stanko, 2007) and recognises that companies must consider sources outside their own walls for ideas for the development and commercialisation of innovation (Gassmann, 2006;Almirall and Casadesus-Masanell, 2010). Previous research has investigated Living Labs from several perspectives, including community operations research (Bajgier et al, 1991), decision making and feasibility study (Haymaker andChachere, 2006), usersystem interaction (De Ryuter et al, 2007), open innovation tools (Almirall and Wareham, 2008;Kviselius et al, 2009), ICT innovation development (Herzog et al, 2007;Følstad, 2008a;Følstad, 2008b;Schuurman et al, 2011), information flow structures and knowledge integration (Kusiak, 2007;De Moor et al, 2010;Wolfert et al, 2010), and operations and functions (Almirall and Wareham, 2011). However, research lacks a uniform definition of Living Labs, especially from the network perspective (Westerlund and Leminen, 2011;Romero and Molina, 2012).…”

Venture Community: Democratisation of Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies

“…Hence, an increasing number of managers have become interested in the notion of living labs as a way of transforming their conventional R&D organizations to follow an open-innovation model (Westerlund and Leminen, 2011). The notion of 'living labs' (or living laboratories) emerged in the early 1990s (e.g., Bajgier et al, 1991) to describe regional areas where students undertook real-world projects to solve large-scale problems. Later on, William Mitchell of MIT used the concept as a user-centric methodology for studying smart/future homes.…”

Q&A. What Are Living Labs?

“…Dutilleul et al, 2010) • An environment with embedded technologies and users (cf. Bajgier et al, 1991;Intille et al, 2005;Intille et al, 2006) • A context or a methodology (cf. Almirall et al, 2012;Bergvall-Kåreborn et al, 2009;Dell'Era & Landoni 2014;Mulder & Stapper, 2009;) • An enhancement or implementation of public and user involvement, such as for rural innovations (cf.…”