Initiatives
What is open innovation?
A paradigm for the intentional use of knowledge inflows and outflows to speed up internal innovation, and expand markets for the external use of innovation, respectively. It assumes that companies can and should use external ideas, as well as internal ideas and internal and external routes to market, as they seek to advance their technology (European Commission).
Preparation of
Living Labs development
Limited scale experimentation based on user experience
More extensive application development and field experimentation
User-guided co-creation and Living Lab business model operation
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Stakeholder involvement
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Vision building (vision workshops)
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User community building
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Analysis of current ways of collaborative working
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Innovative scenarios and use cases, supported by users
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Requirements analysis and definition of services
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Mock-up development
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User experience and idea generation
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Limited application development and testing based on ideas
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Limited user interaction and user experience
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Technologies and applications selection
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Integration of tools
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Limited proof of principle experimentation at reference laboratory
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New concepts and ideas
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Experimentation and validation with users
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Full-scale software development
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Integration of tools and services
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Sound methods for extended testing and validation
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Living Lab field trials preparation and initiation
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Training and demonstration of capabilities
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Living Lab field trials extended to full user experience
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Experimentation with new ways of collaboration
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Evaluation of Living Lab as innovation environment and impact on rural development
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Functioning Living Lab business model and innovation systems
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Full demonstration of Living Lab capabilities
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Living Lab as service provision to stakeholders
The C@R Workflow for Living Labs and Trial Establishment
Source (ENoLL) - Alcotra
Open innovation applies to real life situations in which innovation is driven by users as a result of experimentation best practices and an iterative process of co-creation of new services, products and social infrastructures.
By placing the user at the center of the innovation life cycle and identifying their needs as a central focus through a Match Making Tool, the innovation cluster becomes a vehicle of a strategic nature to respond to the various challenges of a region, entrepreneurs, women, companies and stakeholders that comprise it, adopting the principles of open innovation.
