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European Network of Living Labs

Effective Members

Flemish Living Lab Platform (BE)

Northern Rural-Urban Living Lab (NorthRULL) (FI)

Laurea Living Labs Network (FI)

Human Tech Living Lab (FI)

Suuntaamo Tampere Central Region Living Lab (FI) Forum Virium Helsinki (Helsinki Living Lab) (FI)

Ways of Learning for the Future (Wolf Living Lab) (FR)

Telecommunication Networks and Integrated Services Laboratory (TNS Living Lab) (EL)

Lightning Living Lab (PT)

i2Cat Catalonia Digital Living Lab (ES) eLiving Lab espaitec (ES)

Consorcio Fernando de Los Rios (ES)

Botnia Living Lab (SE)

Manchester Living Lab (UK)

City Lab Coventry (UK)

Trentino as a Lab (IT)

1. Highlights from the year 2012 During the year 2012, ENoLL has worked both to continue its stable record of policy influencing, organizing events and creating networking opportunities, promoting Living Labs and explored new initiatives into ground breaking new areas of creativity, open data and in the mean time reinforcing already established linkages to areas such as health, active aging, social innovation and future internet. ENoLL has also enhanced web-based community building, and driven further national and international collaboration and joined into several new EU-funded project initiatives bringing benefits to its members. Much of the work of ENoLL, has had an impact in the EU debate and the report in your hands highlights just a few of these occasions when an event, policy paper or other initiative or activity has been a catalyst for further public debate or acted to support a new policy or funding initiative, all this in order to offer new opportunities to European Living Labs, SMEs and not forgetting the impact that Living Labs can have on the wider European research, development and innovation community. IPR for Living Labs

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues are of growing importance to Living Lab environment, and therefore it was timely to organise an open workshop dedicate to these issues on January 27th. The workshop was organized jointly between ENoLL and the Apollon -project, which involves many ENoLL members. Some of the most pressing questions on IPR were identified as follows: • How do you deal with user-generated applications based on open data for smart cities? • How can you guarantee the sustainably? • How to facilitate idea ownership in a bottom up approach? • How to deal with IPR in a cloud-service based environment? • How to protect SMEs and large industries sufficiently to collaborate together? How to deal with the results? As experts, ENoLL had the pleasure to invite Ms. Catarina D'Araujo, who has extensive experience in IP in the framework of EU funded projects (e.g. FP7 and CIP) from the IPR Helpdesk. and Mr. Hans Bracquené, with extensive knowledge on the negotiation and drafting of R&D agreements, license agreements, creation of spin-offs, with a special emphasis on the rules applicable to international and national government funding of innovation (EU Framework Program, ESA, Eureka). The workshop was recorded and published on the ENoLL Vimeo channel. Presentations are available on openlivinglabs.eu. ENoLL signs an MoU with the World Bank

On July 10, the ENoLL signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the World Bank. The agreement was signed by Jose Luis Irigoyen, World Bank Director for Transport, Water, and Information and Communication Technologies, and Álvaro Oliveira, representing the ENoLL President, Jarmo Eskelinen.

The agreement between the World Bank and ENoLL will bring unprecedented global expertise in the area of ICT to help the World Bank and its clients improve public services, increase civic participation, advance public administrative capacity, and drive green growth. And it will help the two institutions further in their shared goal of finding new approaches to improving the public services that affect the everyday lives of millions of people in developing countries. The collaboration agreements can be found at openlivinglabs.eu.

ENoLL Office

Networking Support ENoLL Office supports its members by organizing networking events, thematic workshops to exchange information and best practice. The office also engages in different activities that promote ENoLL network members to external partners.

Policy Influencing ENoLL Office supports to influence EU policies and engages in debate with EU institutions and takes part in EU Consultations. Office also acts as a partner in EU-funded projects of strategic importance and benefit to the whole network.

EU-funding for Innovation ENoLL Office supports to influence EU policies and engages in debate with EU institutions and takes part in EU Consultations. Office also acts as a partner in EUfunded projects of strategic importance and benefit to the whole network.

European Network of Living Labs

Associated Members

ESADE Institute for Innovation and Knowledge (ES)

Finnish Living Lab Network of Applied Sciences, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences (FI) European Society for Concurrent Enterprising Network (IT)

Living Labs help SMEs to expand the business

During the conference on User-Driven Open Innovation Ecosystems organised together jointly with ENoLL, in Mechelen (BE) in May, the Apollon project presented its key outcomes to the wider Living Lab community. The project focused on leveraging the local knowledge and ecosystems of Living Labs in helping SMEs to expand their business beyond their regional markets.

Today, SMEs make up for 99% of the European companies, while only 8% of those are generating business abroad, which is why the European Commission is searching for ways to aid these SMEs in generating and capitalising on business opportunities on the international level. However, in order to achieve this, the European Commission is searching for local brokerage organisations that can ease the way for SMEs abroad. The Apollon project set out to tackle this challenge by leveraging Living Labs as doorways to the European Marketplace.

The project showed that Living Labs are successful in opening up European markets to SMEs: Before Apollon (2008), 64% of Apollon SMEs had 0-5% international turnover, while the top-20% had 45-60% of international turnover.

By the end of the project in 2012, the number of SME’s generating just 0-5% international turnover had fallen to 27%, while the top 20% showed 55-70% international turnover. These results show that Living Lab projects are not just tools to innovate on products and services, but can act as efficient gateways to foreign markets as well.

Next to these results, the knowledge gained during the project is still available at the Knowledge Centre of the European Network of Living Labs, while the project will also launch an on-line Marketplace, in which SMEs and Living Labs can share their products and services. Apollon was a CIP ICT PSP Pilot, a project co-funded by the European Commission, in which IBBT-iLab.o coordinated a consortium of 30 partners, of which 11 were SMEs. From openlivinglabs.eu you can easily find to the Knowledge Center and the Market Place. More information you can find on the Apollon web portal.

3rd ENoLL Summer School - Catwalk for Innovation and all things Living Lab!

The 3rd the European Network of Living Lab (ENoLL) International Living Lab Summer School organized together by Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Forum Virium Helsinki and Aalto University gathered together several experts from more than 30 countries during three and a 1/2 of intensive and inspiring days in August. The most remote participants arrived from South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Taiwan and New Zealand.

During the event a diverse mix of participants coming from universities, private and public sector, had the change to share and gain expertise on user-driven open innovation, open data, design, regional development, creativity and culture as well as smart cities. In addition to 30 expert speakers, the event included a welcoming word from Deputy Mayor of Helsinki, Pekka Sauri and the European Commission greeting by Olavi Luotonen. Professor Ikujiro Nonaka, the worlds leading academic on information management and information and innovation, KooPee Hiltunen, expert on the Finnish Gaming Industry and Söderling, the founder of the Mobile Brain Bank Petra Söderling.

The event featured a wide range of

Said about Living Labs

What happens in a Living Lab? In a living lab, a large number of users interact with new products and services in their daily – professional and private – life. This allows for researchers to assemble user feedback and to systematically observe, monitor and analyse user behavior in a natural environment.

Insight on to the Human Dimension of Technology Living Labs often represent regional innovation environments focusing on user communities embedded within “real life”. Besides technological aspects Living Labs allow insight on to the human dimension of technology, which is of paramount importance for a successful societal deployment of new technologies.

Living Labs bridging the gap between RDI and Market Entrance European Commission has supported ENoLL growth from the outset, recognising that user-driven open innovation is an efficient way to deal with market fragmentation and obstacles, making the innovation process more efficient by bridging the gap between RDI and market entrance and supporting better and faster take-up of RDI results.