Publications by the ENoLL community

Publications by the ENoLL Community 3.3

TIM review special issue on ‘Innovation in Living Labs’

ENoLL Positioning paper/ H2020 midterm evaluation

January and February issues of the acclaimed Technology Innovation Management Review journal are two special issues on the theme of Innovation in Living Labs. The majority of the articles featured in the issues were selected, reviewed, and revised papers presented at the OpenLivingLab Days 2016, held from 23-26 August in Montreal, Canada. Guest editors for the January and February issue are Dimitri Schuurman, Pieter Ballon, Seppo Leminen and Mika Westerlund.

“Digital Participation through Social Living Labs” book

ENoLL President, Tuija Hirvikoski, contributed to the first edition of the book exploring digital participation and the role of Living Labs. It was edited by thought leaders from the fields of education, youth studies, librarianship, communication technology, and digital media studies and is positioned as a link to connect these debates. In April 2017, H2020 Midterm evaluation results were shared with public stakeholders, initiated further discussions between participants and panellist and forecasted some changes the European Economic and Social Committee is planning to put in place for the upcoming 9th Framework Programme. Some numbers as results of the Public Consultation: Close to 3500 responses; Over 300 position papers; Respondents from 69 countries; 78% of respondents are satisfied or very satisfied with Horizon 2020. ENoLL responded with its own positioning paper, listing eight ENoLL Living Lab case studies that serve as examples of ENoLL research and innovation ecosystem (Bird Living Lab, Botnia Living Lab, Laurea Living Lab, Library Living Lab, Guadalinfo SMARTLAB, Başakşehir Living Lab, imec.livinglabs and eLivingLab).

Paper: The Mediterranean as an Open Living Lab This paper results from two seminars entitled “The Mediterranean as an open living lab” and jointly organised by the IEMed and ENoLL with the goal of exploring a regionwide network of innovation hubs that could generate a Mediterranean way of developing open innovation with its own idiosincracy: the Mediterranean as a Living Lab. U4IoT Handbook Specifically focusing on the topical area of Internet of Things has been published. The handbook explains how the Living Lab approach can greatly support the research and innovation activities in that area. End-user engagement toolkit Open Innovation Calls Document ENoLL co-produced together with the OISPG group and Institut Mines Telecom realised a report and selection of Open Innovation related Calls in H2020 aimed at ENoLL members and community. Best Living Lab Project Award Winners In December of 2016, the competition for the Best Living Lab Project Award opened. Twenty-two ENoLL Members presented one or more projects they have worked on in 2016 which was then put to voting. Living Labs Taiwan received the highest number of votes for their project “Integration of Wearable Devices and Exercise Management”. “FRACTALS” of Precision Agriculture Living Lab and “webFitForAll” project of ThessAHALL received the second and third highest number of votes respectively.

Created by ENoLL in the context of U4IoT project aims to guide the researchers and practitioners through the innovation processes, providing tools and methods for co-creation and user-engagement. The toolkit comprises methodologies and tools found across literature and online, put together in a format that follows the different phases along the innovation process, namely: exploration, experimentation and evaluation.