TY - JOUR
T1 - Living Labs
T2 - Arbiters of midand ground-level innovation
AU - Almirall, E.
AU - Wareham, J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The objectives of i2Cat are two-fold. On one side, traditional basic and applied research has a prominent status, especially as a result of the participation of three major technological universities. However, a great deal of effort is devoted to more exploratory innovation. These practices found their match when the ENoLL started its activities. i2Cat was one of the founding members and with the support of STSI (the Catalan government funding agency for the Information Society), initiated a programme to coordinate Living Labs activities in Catalonia. This programme crystallised in the launch in October 2007 of CatLab – the Catalan Network of Living Labs, comprising eight organisations performing Living Labs activities together with the Catalan government.
Funding Information:
Personal risk is also a limiting factor. Personal financial risk is a well-understood reality of the entrepreneur. Living Labs can mitigate this risk by creating an innovation arena that mostly takes the form of a project financed by European, National, regional or directly by the funds of the Living Lab.
PY - 2011/1
Y1 - 2011/1
N2 - We perform a comparative case analysis of four working Living Labs to identify their common functions. Theoretically, we ground our analysis in terms of how they function, their processes of exploration and exploitation, where they work in the innovation strata and how new socially negotiated meanings are negotiated and diffused. Our research highlights four novel insights: first, Living Labs function at the low- and mid-level innovation strata; second, Living Labs are technologically agnostic; third, Living Labs use context based experience to surface new, socially constructed meanings for products and services; and finally, Living Labs are equally focused on exploration and exploitation.
AB - We perform a comparative case analysis of four working Living Labs to identify their common functions. Theoretically, we ground our analysis in terms of how they function, their processes of exploration and exploitation, where they work in the innovation strata and how new socially negotiated meanings are negotiated and diffused. Our research highlights four novel insights: first, Living Labs function at the low- and mid-level innovation strata; second, Living Labs are technologically agnostic; third, Living Labs use context based experience to surface new, socially constructed meanings for products and services; and finally, Living Labs are equally focused on exploration and exploitation.
KW - Business and management studies
KW - Case study
KW - Information and communications technology
KW - Innovation strategy
KW - Innovation studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78751614496&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09537325.2011.537110
DO - 10.1080/09537325.2011.537110
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78751614496
SN - 0953-7325
VL - 23
SP - 87
EP - 102
JO - Technology Analysis and Strategic Management
JF - Technology Analysis and Strategic Management
IS - 1
ER -