Living Labs as an Approach to Strengthen Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems

An Action Research Approach to Rural Living Labs Innovation

This paper examines the potential of the Living labs concept as change catalyst for rural and regional development. An action research approach is proposed as a basis for organising innovation in Living labs. The approach distinguishes between strategic and operational Living labs activities. We discuss how software development as spiral process and how architecture framework development can be...

Living Labs as Open-Innovation Networks

Successful innovation development is nowadays dependent on understanding both existing and emerging user needs, through which business opportunities are developed. For that purpose, the use of living labs has emerged as a novel form of creating competences and competitive advantage. An increasing number of managers are interested in living labs as a way to transform their conventional R&D organ...

Editorial: Living Labs and User Innovation

Welcome to the January 2016 issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review – the second of two issues on the theme of Living Labs and User Innovation. It is my pleasure welcome back our guest editors for December and January: Seppo Leminen (Laurea University of Applied Sciences and Aalto University, Finland), Dimitri Schuurman (iMinds and Ghent University, Belgium), Mika Westerlund (Carle...

Innovation: A question of Fit – The Living Labs approach

In the recent years Living Labs have manage to draw a significant amount of attention to both their methodologies and organizations. Because of that, a significant amount of effort has been diverted to its understanding. However, very little in assessing its contribution and comparing it to existing methodologies. This work aims to cover that gap by summarizing the most common European Living L...

Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems in Transition