According to the most advanced paradigms in Concurrent Innovation, a wide participation of people in knowledge-rich environments is a key factor to achieve success and to use resources in an optimal manner. Such participation may occur in a variety of schemes and, through the years, Living Labs have demonstrated how, based on an effective implementation of human-centered concurrency, the co-creativity is exploited at the utmost.
LABORANOVA, a project funded under the frame of FP6 Collaborative Working Environments, addresses collaborative mechanisms among individuals, especially Living Labs.
Living Labs are perceived, in LABORANOVA vision, as suitable contexts for applying the project pillars (Ideation / Connection / Evaluation) to share, improve and evaluate ideas in a genuine social environment. Traditional limitations in trading off the technology push vs the application pull are therefore bound to find a synthesis able to meet the different constraints that innovation processes always have to consider.
The workshop aims to give participants an overview on some significant Living Labs experiences carried out in Europe: a noteworthy thrust to the concept has been recently given by the creation of the European Network of Living Labs. In order to reach a more user-driven European Innovation System, new methodologies for co-creative research and innovation, included a direct user involvement in the innovation process, are applied.
An interactive session closes the workshop and emerging requirements from potential users, related to relevant market trends, are discussed.
Schedule:
14:00
Workshop introduction
14:10 Session 1 – Mechanisms for collaborative innovation in Living Labs
LABORANOVA: Creative Innovation Vision
Klaus Dieter Thoben, Alexander Hesmer (BIBA - University of Bremen, Germany)
CatLab – The
Catalan Living Lab – Best Cases
Esteve Almirall, (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Large Enterprise Open Innovation: Insead Tools
Marco Luccini
(Insead, France)
Vibeke Gustafsson (Danfoss, Denmark)
Kulwant Pawar(Nottingham University, UK)
Andrea Bonaccorsi (Pisa University, Italy)
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Session 2 – Interactive session: Emerging requirements from potential users
In this session, the audience will have the opportunity of:
· Identifying the most relevant and desirable functionalities and needs
· Evaluating and prioritising the identified functionalities and needs;
· Suggesting sensible exploitation strategy and mechanisms.
17:00 Closure