The Creative Daegu Living Lab(D-Lab) identifies various needs of citizens and the city to have stakeholders participate directly from the first stage of creating the solution. We create a user-driven open innovative ecosystem providing with ‘prototypes/products’, ‘use-case services’, ‘technologies’, and ‘new policies and institution’.

The important characteristics of D-Lab are:

-Urban innovation platform with direct citizen-engagement

-Citizen training across various projects, such as Social Living Lab, Alley Living Lab and Smart City Service Living Lab.

-Self-organizing through operating a “Spiral Helix Innovation Model” to manage the entire processes of creating valuable products/services.

-Global-oriented purposes: in the areas of urban regeneration, smart cities and social problem solving to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

-A stable funding model delivering living lab operations funded from various entities such as Daegu City, national government and private enterprises, etc.