Connecting the strategic intent of innovation labs and projects: the case of the Green Fablab

Abstract

The creation of innovation laboratories within universities arises from the need to consolidate pedagogical and research aspects. These innovation laboratories are becoming key spaces for the development of innovation competences. In this article, we describe the experiences of developing a pilot project on distributed recycling approach. The results showed how the development of this project can play a role in strategy development at the innovation laboratory level. These insights are pertinent for the managers of these spaces to identify competencies to develop in the middle/long term. The development of methodological tools to connect the operational, tactical and strategic levels and competences for these spaces are important future paths of development Index Terms-innovation labs; strategic intent; distributed recycling; Green Fablab

Unfolding innovation lab services in public hospitals: a hospital FabLab case study

“…To what extent does a FabLab setting act as a facilitating interface for hospital innovation processes? These are some of the questions that motivate this study and that we consider to be of high relevance, since they raise the operational and methodological issues that lab managers, researchers and users often have to deal with [20].…”