Living labs: Concepts and critical factors

Living labs: Concepts and critical factors

Van Geenhuizen, M.S.

Technology, Policy and Management

Values, Technology and Innovation

2014-12-31

Living Labs are a relatively new and increasingly popular tool to enhance innovation. Many universities, companies and cities today are involved in Living Labs to bridge barriers in their collaboration and benefit from the input of user groups’ needs and shortening time to market. Despite their popularity, Living Labs just started being subject of systematic research, for example, on characteristics, aims and critical factors. That this took a long time can be ascribed to the different conceptualizations of Living Labs and a fuzzy use of the concepts. This study first presents a conceptualization of Living Labs and attempts to position it in-between ‘adjacent’ concepts. This is followed by a summary of the literature so-far on critical factors in set-up and operation of Living Labs and these are illustrated with two case studies, particularly concerning the barriers they can bridge and the conditions that need to be satisfied for that

living labs
k nowledge commercialization
user groups
Triple Helix
critical factors

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The 14th ICTPI Conference, International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation, Brno (Czech Republic), 9-12 Sept. 2014

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