Living Labs as Tools for Open Innovation

Niklas Z. Kviselius, Per Andersson, Håkan Ozan and Mats Edenius
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Niklas Z. Kviselius: Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Per Andersson: Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Håkan Ozan: CSC Sverige AB, Solna, Sweden
Mats Edenius: Uppsala University, Sweden

Communications & Strategies, 2009, vol. 1, issue 74, 75-94

Abstract: This paper presents a Living Lab in Stockholm as a focal point for discussing how the Living Lab concept can be extended and used for engaging in multiorganizational open innovation. Although Living Labs have been found to have potential for driving innovation through collaboration, more research is necessary to find tangible ways of organizing this kind of collaboration. The paper is explorative and empirically induced from an ongoing development and practical implementation of a Living Lab at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport - Sweden's largest airport situated outside Stockholm. This Airport Living Lab involves a number of large industrial and academic stakeholders aiming at ensuring multi-organizational innovation delivery. Of special interest is how the Living Lab concept should evolve to continue creating conditions for user-oriented innovations through multi-organizational collaboration which would not necessarily take place otherwise. Congruent with the explorative aim of the paper it ends up in a discussion about five propositions that should be on the agenda of research and implementation for Living Lab founders in the coming years.

Keywords: Living Labs; Open innovation; Electronic Collaboration Tools (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 O32 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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