Workshop at OpenLivinglab Days 2015 © ENoLL
executive summary: Living Labs and ENoLL
living lab publications (e.g. Eriksson et al., 2005; Niitamo et al., 2006 & Ståhlbröst, 2008), the community can be characterised as largely practice-based.
their respective economic niches and competitive advantages in the perspective of Smart Specialisation. 1
Recently the field of academic research into living labs has also blossomed. Two new PhD’s in the field of living labs (Schuurman, 2015 & Leminen, 2015) illustrate this evolution, as well as dedicated tracks at internationally acclaimed conferences such as ISPIM, critically acclaimed special issues in TIM Review and INFO, and the growing number of high quality papers presented at the OpenLivingLab Days Conference. The living lab approach offers benefits to companies, users, developers, public financiers and from a territorial perspective living labs can help European Regions identify and valorise
E.g. the Coventry Fab Lab where citizens, entrepreneurs, researchers and
policy makers come together to create solutions to enhance the Coventry city life. 2
E.g. in the neoScores project from iMinds Living Labs musicians were actively
involved in the development of a tablet application for reading and annotating digital sheet music scores. 3
E.g. the APOLLON project with a.o. Botnia Living Lab, which included pilots
in different countries with innovations in development which enabled real-life testing in different cultural contexts.
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