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The objective of this session is to provide a small group of participants with an in-depth understanding of co-creation and experimentation in Living Lab environments, specifically tailored towards the context of technology-oriented Living Labs. Trainees will learn about the importance of desirability, feasibility, and viability in Living Lab projects and how they can achieve their goals through the main ‘checks’ per innovation management stage: Focus, Differentiation, and Coherence.
This session is a deep dive into co-creation and experimentation in Living Lab environments based on practical and concrete project examples and hands-on frameworks and tools. Participants will learn about the 3-layered model for Living Labs, main innovation management phases, and methods for co-creation and experimentation. Trainees will also have the opportunity to map out their own toolbox, co-create their own innovation canvas, and receive hands-on training and exercises in facilitation and interviewing techniques. During the second day, the participants will visit a city Living Lab in Turnhout (Belgium) and get a real and practical feel of the Living Lab activities and use cases around the theme of cocreation and piloting.
imec.livinglabs
Imec offers researchers and entrepreneurs the chance to co-create and test their innovative solutions thoroughly with their target audience and stakeholders. The involvement of the end-users at an early stage of the development process makes it possible to tailor the innovation from the outset to real needs, habits, attitudes, and contextual factors. In that way products and services are better and have every chance of success on the market. The imec.livinglabs research includes users early on and all through the innovation process. This approach provides a solution to innovation thresholds and challenges such as: i) capturing, understanding, and validating users’ interactions with products and services, at an early stage; ii) transforming ideas into prototypes users can interact within their daily context; iii) shaping ‘(minimum) viable products’ through an iterative, agile process; iv) designing business models through stakeholder analysis and go-to-market definition.
Licalab – Living & Care Lab
LiCalab is a care living lab that supports businesses and organizations by including end users (citizens, patients, care professionals) from the very beginning of the development process until market introduction. LiCalab is a research group within Thomas More University of Applied Sciences. The Living Lab is strongly embedded in its region and has a large regional and international network on citizen, institutional, academic and policy level. The focus areas of LiCalab are medical care, (patient) rehabilitation, care technology, assisted living, active and healthy aging, and preventative healthcare. LiCalab gained extensive expertise in methodologies for co-creation, co-design, user experience, stakeholder engagement and participatory approaches and has experience in collaborating with Living Labs on an international scale.
The target audience for this Deep Dive session includes both current and future Living Lab members who are involved in innovation and co-creation projects.
Specifically, the session aims to benefit:
17 and 18 of October 2023
DEEP DIVE WITH THE PARTICIPANTS: identifying their own stakeholders & (technology) assets, linked to their Living Lab vision & mission + identification
DEEP DIVE WITH THE PARTICIPANTS: mapping out their own ‘toolbox’ and identifying gaps
DEEP DIVE WITH PARTICIPANTS: co-create your own innovation canvas
DEEP DIVE WITH THE PARTICIPANTS: hands-on training & exercise with facilitation & interviewing techniques via active role playing
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