Living Lab on TIM Review December Issue!

Technology Innovation Management Review has just published their December issue on the themes of Living Labs and Crowdsourcing.The articles on living labs carry on the theme of their November issue and  

Technology Innovation Management Review has just published their December issue on the themes of Living Labs and Crowdsourcing.The articles on living labs carry on the theme of their November issue and  September 2012 issue.

Among the five selected articles, four are written by ENoLL members: iMinds ( ENoLL Effective Member) and Laurea University of Applied Sciences (ENoLL Effective Member), Aalto University and Carleton University 

Want an overview of the issue? See below the words from the Guest Editors.

In the first article, Carina Veeckman and Dimitri Schuurman from the iMinds research group in Belgium, along with Seppo Leminen and Mika Westerlund, show how the main characteristics, or building blocks, of living lab environments can impact daily operations and project outcomes. Based on their multiple case-study analysis of four living Labs in Europe, they propose a “Living Lab Triangle” framework that triangulates the characteristics of the living lab environment, the living lab approach, and the innovation outcome. Their findings imply that managers and researchers contemplating innovation in living labs need to consider the intended inputs and outcomes, and must reframe their innovation activities accordingly. Their article provides practical guidelines on how living labs should be managed on the levels of community interaction, stakeholder engagement, and methodological setup.

Next, Louna Hakkarainen and Sampsa Hyysalo from Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, share key insights from an in-depth case study of a living lab collaboration to develop and refine a “smart floor” monitoring system for elderly care. Despite its ultimate success, the near-failure of the collaboration effort provided key insights into the role of the living lab environment as a catalyst for learning between users and developers. Researchers, managers, and living lab participants will benefit from the practical insights and key messages that emerged from this case study.

In the third article, Risto Rajala, Mervi Vuori, and Jukka-Pekka Hares from Aalto University in Finland, and Mika Westerlund from Carleton University in Canada, explore how technology companies can use crowdsourcing to go beyond mere idea generation to benefit from user knowledge in product and service innovation. Through their case study of a telecommunication company’s crowdsourcing initiatives, the authors argue that companies need to think about user-knowledge management in a more holistic way to complement and make benefit of users’ knowledge, and they suggest four key lessons to help these companies move beyond simply crowdsourcing ideas.

In the fourth article, Suchita Nirosh Kannangara and Peter Uguccioni from the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, examine risk management in crowdsourcing initiatives. By applying the concept of business ecosystem health to the crowdsourcing context, they examine the methods by which firms can maximize health by mitigating risk in crowdsourcing-based business ecosystems.

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