Living Lab prolida
Spaces, concepts, methods and tools for user-centered innovation development in ageing research.
The Living Lab approach is a focus of research work on ageing, health and well-being at IARA (Institute for Applied Research on Ageing).
What is a Living Lab?
A Living Lab can be described as a
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user-orientated,
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innovation-promoting system that offers various stakeholders,
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including end users,
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a framework for developing application-oriented products
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and solutions for specific issues in a multidisciplinary manner,
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as well as testing and evaluating them together
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and establishing them on the market in the long term.
Definition by Anna Ståhlbröst | Botnia Living Lab
“A Living Lab is an orchestrator of open innovation processes focusing on co-creation of innovations in real-world contexts by involving multiple stakeholders with the objective to generate sustainable value for all stakeholders focusing in particular on the end-users”.
