User Contribution in Innovation Processes - Reflections from a Living Lab Perspective

Svensson, Jesper; Eriksson, Carina Ihlström; Ebbesson, Esbjörn

doi:10.1109/hicss.2010.424

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“…Svensson et al [34], in line with the European Network of Living Labs (ENOLL), consider a Living Lab not only as a methodology, but also as an organization, an environment, a system in itself, where innovation might take place. Recently, the concept of Living Labs is expanding, from research contexts at knowledge institutions or in private sector research and development, towards complex socio-spatial contexts [24].…”

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Co-Creation Dynamics in Urban Living Labs

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Citizens and urban policy makers are experimenting with collaborative ways to tackle wicked urban issues, such as today's sustainability challenges. In this article, we consider one particular way of collaboration in an experimental setting: Urban Living Labs (ULLs). ULLs are understood as spatially embedded sites for the co-creation of knowledge and solutions by conducting local experiments. As such, ULLs are supposed to offer an arena for reflexive, adaptive, and multi-actor learning environments, where new practices of self-organization and novel (infra-) structures can be tested within their real-world context. Yet, it remains understudied how the co-creation of knowledge and practices actually takes place within ULLs, and how co-creation unfolds their impacts. Hence, this paper focuses on co-creation dynamics in urban living labs, its associated learning and knowledge generation, and how these possibly contribute to urban sustainability transitions. We analyzed empirical data from a series of in-depth interviews and were actively involved with ULLs in the Rotterdam-The Hague region in the Netherlands. Our findings show five distinct types of co-creation elements that relate to specific dynamics of participation, facilitation, and organization. We conclude with a discussion on the ambivalent role of contextualized knowledge and the implications for sustainability transitions.

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“…In the words of Eriksson, Niitamo, and Kulkki, the idea of a living lab is a "user-centric research methodology for sensing, prototyping, validating, and refining complex solutions in multiple and evolving real-life contexts" [33]; therefore, it establishes a good ground on the idea of implementing the living lab methodology in designing smart city services. In the end, it can be understood that living labs work as an idea that can be actualized into a process, a methodology, a framework, or even a space, which relies on the nature of the requirement [34][35][36].…”

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Architecting and Designing Sustainable Smart City Services in a Living Lab Environment

Alam

Porras

2018

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In terms of sustainability, cities become smart when they provide smart services to the inhabitants using information and communication technologies without threatening the future of the environment, economy, or society. However, the process of developing such sustainable smart services has certain challenges, especially in understanding the real needs of the people living in the city. Citizens or, in a wider perspective, the inhabitants of the city are the key stakeholders in the case of smart services in a city. Active involvement of the people throughout the development process is a way of successfully designing such services. On the other hand, integrating sustainability, for example, including environmental data, into smart city services is challenging. Therefore, this research aims to combine environmental data with regular smart city services, while engaging city inhabitants in the development process. This approach was adapted from the concept of living lab methodology. Finally, an application developed following this method is presented and evaluated.

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“…In terms of Eriksson, Niitamo, and Kulkki the idea of living lab as a ‚user-centric research methodology for sensing, prototyping, validating and refining complex solutions in multiple and evolving real life contexts‛ *27], therefore it establishes a good ground on the idea of implementing living lab methodology in designing smart city services. In the end, it can be understood that Living lab works as an idea that can be actualized into a process, a methodology, a framework or even a space, which relies on the nature of the requirement [28,29,30].…”

Section: Living Lab Methodologymentioning

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Architecting and Designing Sustainable Smart City Services in Living Lab Environment

Alam¹,

Porras²

2018

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In terms of sustainability, cities become smart when they provide intelligent services to the inhabitants using information and communication technologies without threatening the future of the environment, economy or the society. However, the process of developing such sustainable smart services has certain challenges, especially in understanding the real needs of the people living in the city. Inhabitants of the city or the citizens are the key stakeholders in case of smart services in a city. Active involvement of the people throughout the process is a way to design such services. On the other hand, integrating sustainability, for example including environmental data to the smart city services has been found challenging. Therefore, this research discusses an approach on combining environmental data with regular smart city services and to engage city inhabitants in the process, the approach that is adapted from the concept of living lab methodology. Finally, an application has been developed to represent a smart city service following this method.

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User Contribution in Innovation Processes - Reflections from a Living Lab Perspective

Cited by 22 publications

References 9 publications

Co-Creation Dynamics in Urban Living Labs

Co-Creation Dynamics in Urban Living Labs

Architecting and Designing Sustainable Smart City Services in a Living Lab Environment

Architecting and Designing Sustainable Smart City Services in Living Lab Environment

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