Busan Living Labs aim to serve as the hub for Living Labs working on various fields in Busan. BLLs work in collaboration with universities, companies, local government, local communities and citizens. We promote bottom-up innovation process in real life context by involving relevant stakeholders. Since 2015, BLLs have constructed 11 areas of Living Labs and an IoT Platform (development portal) in cooperation with private corporations: Factory, Medical, Transportation, Energy, Urban Regeneration, Logistiacs, Fishery Science, Senior Well-being, Barrier-Free, Film and Open Data. BLLs are open to possibilities to establish various Living Labs dealing with new field.

BLLs implement open innovation practices through Living Lab process: : discussion about private & public issues – co-creating idea solving the issues – making prototype – users’ feedback – developing trial product or service – demonstration of trial product-service. Based on this process, we support users to participate actively in product development and construction of public infrastructure for local innovation.

In addition, BLLs organize the network for Industry-University-Institute-Citizen Collaboration to support communication in Living Lab activities. Through this network, we induct greater participation from public and private sectors, more openness to utilize public research resources, and unnecessary regulation improvement.