TAPPING INTO THE MULTIPLE HELIX OF ACADEMIA, PUBLIC SECTOR, INDUSTRY, AND CIVIL SOCIETY
* A Convener for Collaborative Actionns
* A Place for Experimentation
* A Demonstrator of Processes
* An Environment for User-Driven Innovation
A living lab is an approach to manage open innovation processes in which quadruple helix stakeholders including citizens come together to co-create innovative solutions in real life everyday use context. Living Labs support the continuous engagement of all relevant stakeholders valuing openness and transparency. Iterative processes are inclusive to receive and apply feedback in all phases, coupled with real-world experimentation and evaluation. The power of decision making is distributed between all stakeholders and users that identify the stakeholders’ needs, motivations and expectations.
Living Labs Network enables social and business innovation via a bottom-up approach to skills development and training in non-formal learning environments thus, sponsored activities support the rapid adaptation of skills provision to evolving economic and social needs.
Living Labs for the
Collaborative Leadership Process
Where PEOPLE and TECHNOLOGY come together to engage in problem-solving.
Our focus is on strengthening a community for resilience and be prepared
to address the twin transitions - the greening of society and digitalization -
via collaborative action. Our vision is that every community - whether rural,
peri-urban or metropolitan - can convene people from all walks of life led
by the involvement of Quadruple Helix actors in government, academia,
the
private sector and Civil Society to foster growth of the Fourth Sector, to
focus on the Global Goals and other initiatives that foster cross-sectoral
collaboration. We aim to build bridges and break silos between multi-sector
actors to
formulate inclusive responses to calls to action for collaboration
with a co-creation of solutions to challenges. Our efforts also address
the
lacuna on the nexus between sectoral production and management that
can benefit from entrepreneurship for
diversification of products and
services, and look for ways to promote strategies that can enable govern-
ments, business and academia recover from social disruptors
like Covid
and become resilient to future shocks.
Sustainabiity and digitalization have become top priorities among decision-
makers for their impact on
economic, political and business
environments.
Achieving sustainability requires moving from
the traditional economy of a
“take/make/waste” mentality to a “circular economy”, one that is based a
fundamental shift in how we conceive
not only of product development but
the very business models that drive progress in the quest of the twin transitions.
Behind every project lies the LLN Design Studio - a needs analysis lab that
supports qualitative and quantitative research aimed at understanding and
evaluating social,
environmental, technological and economic changes taking
place in a rapidly-changing global, digital and intertwined society. The results
form the basis of programming
for knowledge transfer, cross-sectoral collaborative
actions and social dialogue for a bottoms-up approach to problem solving to
address the needs of society. Our activities are steeped in the Collaborative
Leadership Process that helps diverse audiences consider the inter-related
nature of complex challenges that cannot be achieved by any one sector
in isolation. We
invite you to join us as we explore strategies that foster
environments typical of a living lab...... collaborative, engaged, progressive
and effective.
Living Labs Network
A place to develop ideas....
A place to create projects.....
A place to share knowledge.....
A PLACE TO
DEVELOP IDEAS
For Cross-Sectoral Collaboration
A PLACE TO
CREATE PROJECTS
Simplifying Complex Issues for
Non-Experts
A PLACE TO
SHARE KNOWLEDGE
Public, Private, Academic, NGO
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