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The first open European Network of Living Labs
A Living Lab is an open innovation environment in real-life settings in which user-driven innovation is the co-creation process for new services, products and societal infrastructures. Living Labs encompass societal and technological dimensions simultaneously in a business-citizens-government-academia partnership. As of 20 November 2006, a “First Wave” of nineteen Living Labs across Europe joined forces as a network, to develop and offer a gradually growing set of networked Living Lab services. As of 17 October 2007, a “Second Wave” of thirty-two additional Living Labs joined the network, growing ENoLL to a network of fifty-one Living Labs. Finally, as of 25 November 2008, the “Third Wave” brought to the consolidation of the network by means of sixty-eight additional network members: ENoLL is now based on a total of 129 Living Labs (the figure includes also 10 affiliated Living Labs from non European Countries) .
Moving the Goal Posts
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a vision of open innovation
This vision is about moving the goal posts from a position where the
user is seen as a traditional stakeholder and consumer of industry led
innovations, to a position where the user and user communities are contributors
and co-creators of new innovations.
In order to make a move towards this future, a network of Living Labs
is looking at the “Innovation Lifecycle” {figure above}
and beginning to offer and create specialised services for all necessary
actors in the system; end-users, SME’s, corporations, public sector
and academia.
Immediate Services
The Living Lab sites will already from the beginning offer site specific
services such as: Need-finding services, Public Innovation services,
Test & Validation services, Business Incubation support services,
Collaborative Mediation services and Innovation externalisation services.
Emerging services
The emerging new services (to become available in the near future) include:
Services to empower users, personalisation & customisation, Idea
Generation services, Professional Community services, Pervasive expertise
sharing and Lead User community services
Roadmap
The network is led by the Living Labs Portfolio Leadership Group and
is composed by the Living Labs selected in the three waves. This development
uses a joint Living Labs roadmap 2007-2010 process, facilitated by the
EU Coordination Action projects CoreLabs and CLOCK and the Thematic
Network CO-LLABS, focusing on development of Europe wide multi-site
Living Labs Pilots. http://www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/CO-LLABS
The network development roadmap is, and will continue to be, coordinated
with EU Presidencies as appropriate, and the roadmap currently includes
the following main milestones:
Date Milestone
November 2006 Finnish Presidency: ENoLL "First Wave" launch
event in Helsinki
October 2007 Portuguese Presidency: ENoLL "Second Wave" launch
event in Brussels
April 2008 Slovenian Presidency: ENoLL "Third Wave" call for
membership applications event in Brussels
November 2008 French Presidency: ENoLL "Third Wave" launch
event in Lyon and consolidation of the network
How can I take part?
Partnership
Typically, a Living Lab site is based on a sustainable Business-Citizens-Government-Academia
Partnership and all sites welcome new organisations for discussion about
partnership extension. If you consider yourself mainly as end-user (individual
citizen) you may consider joining the site-specific end-user community.
If you represent a private company, university, regional authority or
other government organisation, you may contact the appropriate site
contact person for a discussion on how to join as a Living Lab partner
with the objective to become sustainably engaged in its development
and operations.
Open Community - Let’s Meet Up!
The Living Labs Open Innovation Community is the open forum for development
of Living Lab services, supporting the Lisbon strategy for Growth and
Jobs. Whether or not you belong to the network (as a Living Lab site)
you are warmly welcome to join. Just click the “open innovation
community” link at the web-site (www.openlivinglabs.eu/community.html)
and follow the instructions. Being a true open community, we will organize
and develop our community activities together.
Let’s meet up!
