International audienceCities nowadays face complex challenges to meet objectives regarding socio-economic development and quality of life. The concept of "smart cities" is a response to these challenges. This paper explores "smart cities" as environments of open and user-driven innovation for experimenting and validating Future Internet-enabled services. Based on an analysis of the current landscape of smart city pilot programmes, Future Internet experimentally-driven research and projects in the domain of Living Labs, common resources regarding research and innovation can be identified that can be shared in open innovation environments. Effectively sharing these common resources for the purpose of establishing urban and regional innovation ecosystems requires sustainable partnerships and cooperation strategies among the main stakeholders

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This paper presents results of the living labs methodology as applied to rural development. Within the C@R project, seven living labs have been launched in various regions in Europe and South-Africa. A collaborative platform has been developed to support rural communities' collaboration. The architecture of this platform is based on open service oriented architecture and allows for reusing and sharing services and applications. The paper demonstrates the validation and use of this platform, integrating various tools for various user communities, in different living labs settings. A common methodology has been designed to support the living labs launch, operation, experimentation and monitoring process. The paper presents results and evaluation of the living labs methodology. Particular focus is on the impacts of the living labs approach on the innovation process and on rural development in the different rural settings.

The Living Lab approach within the multi-year integrated project ECOSPACE focused on community building and active user involvement in the process of developing, introducing and evaluating new collaboration concepts and tools. This paper reports about implementing and evaluating our adapted Living Labs framework to facilitate innovation in collaborative work environments to enhance professional communities. The pursued implementation approach is considered as a strategy for innovation, change and adoption. We use a perspective of socio-technical systems to explain the change-catalyzing role of our framework and findings