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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Shalini NakkasunchiORCiD, Professor Oliver Heidrich
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of a conference proceedings (inc. abstract) that has been published in its final definitive form by International Society for Industrial Ecology, 2023.
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Living Labs are highly diverse and complex in nature. Living Labs emerged in the recent decade with the joint effort of the different stakeholders towards transition governance (Nevens et al., 2013; Schäpke et al., 2018). Living Lab innovation is not focused on single area of research, it is diverse in innovation development across various sectors. It supports development of innovation by involvement of interdisciplinary team i.e., from manufacturer to the end user with a special focus on user needs. Living Lab is a user centred research/innovation with an open and distributed approach to develop a sustainable product and/or service in a real-world environment by regular interactions with all the stakeholders involved (including users) (Evans et al., 2016; Habibipour et al., 2020; Ståhlbröst, 2012). Thus far, the publications on Living Labs are focused on defining the Living Lab (McCrory et al., 2020), its support towards innovation development (either technology (Humble, 2014; Nesti, 2018), product (Andersson & Rahe, 2017; Buhr et al., 2016) or service (Larsson & Holmberg, 2018; Zen et al., 2016)), presenting Living Lab project results (Lupp et al., 2020; Von Wirth et al., 2019), guidance on improving the user engagement (Habibipour et al., 2022; Sarjanen, 2010) etc. The present work is a review of the Living Lab diversity. This work is developed from scientific journal articles, books, reports, conference proceedings etc. published in last 15 years and available from Scopus and Web of Science. A total of 108 resources were found suitable for the present study from overall 525 resources after the abstract and case study screening. Further to this the Living Lab case studies presented in these papers are categorised based on the nature of the organisation involved in Living Lab innovation. A specific emphasis is made on the type of the research works conduced in Living Labs in different sectors. Finally, the key learning outcomes from these case studies are presented to enhance developing future Living Labs.
Author(s): Nakkasunchi S, Heidrich O
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: 11th International Conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE2023).
Year of Conference: 2023
Online publication date: 30/06/2023
Acceptance date: 04/03/2023
Date deposited: 04/10/2024
Publisher: International Society for Industrial Ecology
URL: https://isie2023.exordo.com/programme/presentation/352
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/9p6n-qg48
