An Introduction to the Living Labs Initiative and European Network of Living Labs

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An Introduction to theLiving Labs Initiative and
European Network of Living Labs
Bring Science and Innovation Closer to the
Citizen!
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Where originated the Living Lab Initiative?
Living Lab initiative originated within the
AMI_at_Work Communities http//www.ami-communities.eu

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At the beginning, the Living Labs initiative was
a Special Interest Group
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What was the Living Lab Context?
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What is a Living Lab?

• A Living Lab is a system for building a future
  economy in which real-life user-centric
  innovation and research will be the normal
  co-creation technique for new products, services
  and societal structures
• A Living Lab instruments and stimulates pilot
  users to take active part in, and leverage from,
  research and innovationin their normal real
  life/work contexts.

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What are the elements of a Living Lab?
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What is the role of the CoreLabs Project?
Co-ordinate instrumentation and establishment
ofa European Network of Living Labs, as to
become a sustainable driver of advanced Research
and Innovation
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What are the Key Challenges?

1. Overcoming the failure of network efficiency
   creation of mechanisms to generate network
   efficiency
2. Overcoming the failures of collaborative open
   innovation
3. Developing new forms, methods and processes
   (including management and coordination) of
   user-centric innovation
4. Establishing regionally connected networks of
   innovation
5. Establishing effective operational instruments
6. Engaging in European-wide awareness creation
7. Establishing policies that support and strengthen
   the potential of Living Labs

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Setting-up the Living Lab Open Innovation
Community
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Setting-up the European Network of Living Labs
(ENoLL)
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Why to set-up a Living Lab Network?
Network Values SIZE Critical Mass Economy of
Scale Market Coverage DIVERSITY Total
Competence Increased Creativity Mass-customisation
Action Levels Improvement of individual LL
services LL Network enabled Services Joint Open
Innovation Community Activities Coordinated
National Regional Policy Making
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How to Instrument a Living Lab?
Living LabExpertise
Methodology
Living Labservices
Technology andInfrastructure
Organisation
USERSCommunities
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What are the ingredients of Open Innovation and
Living Lab?
Openness in the process
Industry, Enterprises, entrepeneurs
Ideas Knowledge
People, users
Leaders
Local/Regional flavor

• FROM END PRODUCT CAN NOT BEEN SEEN THE COOKING
  PROCESS IN DETAILS
• ? BUT IT REQUIRES RIGHT INGREDIENTS, ENERGY AND
  COOKING
• ?LOCAL FLAVORING

The cooking pot (Open innovation environments)
IPR Networking

• THE FIRE
• ?Public Private People partnership
• Creative commons
• Precommercial Public Procurement

Source Bror Salmelin, INFSO H, presentation
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Whats the difference between ENoLL and LL-Open?
European Network of Living LabsassociationENo
LL
Living LabOpen InnovationCommunityLL-Open

• Closed Community of LL sites
• 1st wave of 19 LLs
• Selection from portfolio network
• 2nd wave of 32 LLs
• Criteria Based Selection

• Open Community of Individuals
• 700 persons registered
• All will be invited to submit 3rd wave LL
  applications

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Whats the Roadmap of the European Network of
Living Labs?
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Who are the Living Labs of the First Wave?
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Who are the Living Labs of the First Wave?
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Are Telecom Operators involved in Living Labs?
Source Nokia presentation
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What are Operators Motivations for Living Labs?
Source Nokia presentation
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Why Regional Networks of Living Labs?
Operating as a Regional Innovation/Competitiveness
Cluster!
Source Nordic ENoLL Network presentation
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Are Living Labs a Way to speed-up time-to-market?
Setting-up communities of users as a viral
dissemination instrument on the market
Source Nordic ENoLL Network presentation
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Whats Living Labs Advantage for User Concerns?
Turning users traditionally considered as a
problem into valuable creative resources
Source Nordic ENoLL Network presentation
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Who are the First and Second Waves of Living Labs?
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Where are located the First and Second Waves of
Living Labs?
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WHERE ARE WE?
Today

• ENoLL Entity and Sustainability
• Joint LL action as supported network entity
• Self-governed and self-sustainable network

• ENoLL Establishment and Value Creation
• Assisted LL group with shared commons
• LL-exchange and network value creation

• LL/ENoLL Initial Instrumentation
• Definition and Reference Model
• Instrumentation (Methods, Tools, Org. etc)

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Are Living Labs a topic of the EU 7th Framework
Research Program?
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ENoLL basis in i2010 policy

• Initial i2010 Communication and Staff Report
• 2nd cluster Innovation and investment in
  research
• Strengthening Innovation and Investment in ICT
  research to promote growth and moreand better
  jobs
• Developing a European Network of Living Labs
  in the concept of eWork, providing services of
  large deployment to the industry, bringing
  technology test-beds into real-life user
  environments.

i2010 Second Annual Report Launch of a
European Network of Living Labs, 20.11.2006 The
European Network of Living Labs creates a
platform where firms, public authorities and
citizens can work together on developing and
testing new technologies, business models and
services in real-life contexts. The ultimate aim
is to set up a new European Innovation
Infrastructure where users play an active role in
innovation.
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Living Labs in European innovation vision
Helsinki Manifesto 20/11/2006
The European Network of Living Labs establishes
a European platform for collaborative and
co-creative innovation, where the users are
involved in and contribute to the innovation
process. This approach should ensure that
common methodologies and tools are developed
across Europe that support, stimulate and
accelerate the innovation process. The European
Network of Living Labs also has a strong regional
growth and development impact by facilitating and
fostering regional innovation as interlinked with
a European innovation system with a global
reach.
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Living Labs in EU projects
Coordination Actions Integrated Projects
working together
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Potential Living Labs EU funding
sources2007-2008

CIP
Living Labs as a potential thematic network for
policy limited funding (September 2007)
FP7 research infrastructure
Planned funding for Living Labs as research
infrastructurecall 3 (2008)
Study
Study on the potential of the Living Labs
approach incl. its relation to experimental
facilities for future internet related
technologies limited funding (fall 2007)
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Living Labs FIRE strategy
ONELAB
long-term
disruptive technologies, systems, architectures
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FET SAC
FIRE Call 2 40M
PANLAB
pre-commercial or emerging technologies
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CLOCK
LLs CIP Research Infras. Study
co-creative / user-driven
pre-commercial services, products societal
innovation
Future Internet Co-creative Open Innovation
CORELABS
FP6
FP7