If Living Labs are the Answer – What's the Question? A Review of the Literature

Burbridge, Mike

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2017.04.335

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“…Living Labs are often described as real-life places for user co-creation [8]. Living Labs, however, come in a host of variations and there are many different definitions.…”

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Exploring everyday mobility in a living lab based on economic interventions

Sjöman

Ringenson

Kramers

2020

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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New mobility solutions, such as Mobility as a Service, have been suggested to have the potential to reduce car ownership and be part of a transition towards a more sustainable transportation system. However, research suggests that governance measures such as taxation and policies will be needed to ensure sustainability aspects. This paper explores everyday mobility by use of interventions in people's everyday lives. The focus is on identifying underlying factors that may motivate or hinder changes that are positive from a sustainability perspective. This is then put in the perspective of new mobility services and policy making. Our findings support the view that privately owned cars are hard to replace with new mobility services that contribute to sustainability and are not based on individual cars. Economic interventions for increased sustainability will likely have limited effects, since the alternatives do not offer what car owners value most. Also, limited understanding of the car's full costs may make the new services appear comparatively more expensive. Furthermore, urban planning to reduce the need for travel, and the capacity of the physical public transport infrastructure will continue to be important. Long vacation trips and "medium sized flows" are identified as opportunities for further research and for new solutions to support sustainable mobility transitions.

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“…Living Labs are often described as real-life places for user co-creation [8]. Living Labs, however, come in a host of variations and there are many different definitions.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring everyday mobility in a living lab based on economic interventions

Sjöman

Ringenson

Kramers

2020

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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“…The LL offers a diverse set of possible applications, which will be explored later. On a practical level, Burbridge (2017) [149] provides a collection of applications, ranging from health issues, to economic topics for small and medium sized enterprises, business models, and innovations, and to public challenges in energy and environmental transformation, sustainable technologies, eco-cities and smart cities, and community innovation [149]. On a more abstract level, the analyzed papers focused on the following: (1) cities [133,139,143,148], (2) the living lab itself [102,153,158], (3) tourism destinations [25,107], (4) companies [137], and (5) LL networks, such as EnoLL [154].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This allows one to gather information and user requirements from different fields [148]. LLs are not limited to either a public or a private purpose; in contrast, they involve users from both public and private parties [102,149]. To categorize the different stakeholders, Calzada (2019) defined these five stakeholder groups: the public sector, the private sector, civic society, academia, and entrepreneurs [107].…”

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confidence: 99%

The Living Lab as a Tool to Promote Residents’ Participation in Destination Governance

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Growing numbers of tourist arrivals, in combination with community-centered tourism products, have fueled the recent debate on overtourism and a redefining of local steering processes. This has also called for the participation of residents in governance processes. One tool to utilize residents’ participation and cross-stakeholder involvement is the Living Lab (LL), which also functions as a medium for self-organization. This article tackles the research gap that exists in the combination of the LL mechanisms and destination governance (DG). Therefore, the research questions address the characteristics and mechanisms of LLs and the potential for residents’ participation. These efforts are operationalized through a systematic literature review (SLR) on LLs, which involves 40 articles. The transfer of the LL characteristics towards DG reveals that certain drivers and barriers exist when implementing the LL in the governance process, such as the combination of destination and city planning or the redefining of hierarchical structures. The SLR recommendations for future research are based on the interface of LL and DG.

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“…The need for a guiding framework is due, in part, to the nature and characteristics of living labs and the different ways in which they develop and emerge. They are heterogeneous; for example, with different research or development foci, they draw on different participant groups and settings and involve a variety of subject specialties and expertise (Burbridge, 2017;Müller & Sixsmith, 2008;Novitzky et al, 2015;Schuurman et al, 2015;Yazdizadeh & Tavasoli, 2016). Although there is a There is a growing body of literature regarding living labs, which are seen as an effective way to develop and evaluate research for novel products and services with the actual end users.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%