Pisa Leaning Lab at the core of Regional Living Lab developments in Tuscany

Thanks to a dedicated funding line from the Regional Government of Tuscany, the Pisa Leaning Lab will engage over the next couple of years (2011-2012) in the transfer of innovation capacity from the European Living Labs community to traditional industries and regional SMEs. Five business sectors have been identified for this experiment, from leisure shipyards to marble design manufacturers and from automotive components to ICT for public administration.

Thanks to a dedicated funding line from the Regional Government of Tuscany, the Pisa Leaning Lab will engage over the next couple of years (2011-2012) in the transfer of innovation capacity from the European Living Labs community to traditional industries and regional SMEs. Five business sectors have been identified for this experiment, from leisure shipyards to marble design manufacturers and from automotive components to ICT for public administration. The fifth domain, the agro-food industry and rural tourism, will be developed in cooperation with another ENoLL member, Lunigiana Amica.

This initiative, which follows the recent admission of eToscana – the Regional Government’s Living Lab community – into ENoLL, the European Network of Living Labs, aims to deploy a collaborative crowdsourcing platform at the level of Regional SMEs in Tuscany. The five industrial pilots, open to the participation of non-Tuscan and also foreign enterprises, will implement the methods to generate innovation and selected technologies available in the Leaning Lab, aiming at a quantum leap in the current approach to regional development in Tuscany.

Learn more about the Leaning Lab here.

Learn more about Lunigiana Amica here.

Learn more about eToscana here.

 “A very nice piece of integration between research, policy and practice” commented Prof. Andrea Bonaccorsi, coordinator of the new initiative and among the inspiring minds of the Leaning Lab in Pisa. “Something that we will make our best efforts to turn into a flagship initiative for our Regional Government, and a good practice example for our fellow ENoLL members”.

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