Entrepreneurial university activity can field or living labs be supportive?

Entrepreneurial university activity can field or living labs be supportive?

Van Geenhuizen, M.S.

Technology, Policy and Management

Innovation Systems

2011-07-11

„Field labs? („living labs?) are explored to determine their role in bringing new knowledge from university to market. The case is the Netherlands, a country facing an innovation system in which much new knowledge is created by universities but small amounts are brought to market, apparently caused by various missing links. To arrive at a better understanding of such missing links the paper first explores failure/success of valorization at universities using data on the project level. The attention then moves to the concept of „field labs? currently „en vogue? in increasing efficiency of knowledge valorization. A state-of-the-art analysis of stakeholders and aims, and of key-characteristics of the concept is followed by an inventory of what is not known about concepts and practice but should be known to get „field labs? properly structured and implemented. A preliminary assessment of their benefits in the context of valorization of university knowledge closes the analysis.

university
knowledge valorization
project level
The Netherlands
field labs
living labs

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ff96dd88-92fa-41a8-b858-6e1ce1ac6309

Proceedings of the 9th Triple Helix Conference, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA, 11-14 July 2011

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conference paper

(c) 2011 Van Geenhuizen, M.S.