Do Living Labs Live in Russia?

Anna Kokareva (), Evgeniy Kutsenko () and Ekaterina Islankina ()
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Anna Kokareva: Russian relations coordinator
Evgeniy Kutsenko: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Ekaterina Islankina: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Ekaterina Ivanova ()

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Abstract: Innovation infrastructure plays a crucial role in the establishment of links among knowledge producers, intermediaries, and exploiters to deal with socio-economic challenges. Traditionally, the representatives of public sector, business and academia have been considered as the key stakeholders; however today there is a shift of interest towards end users or consumers of products and services. Users, especially citizens, are able to bring new insights of their experience while taking part in testing and validation of innovative products and / or services. Hence, it is essential to decide, which forms of innovation infrastructure units enable successful involvement of users into the design and innovation process. Since mid-2000, the European Union has successfully introduced a platform for testing and experimentation based on the users’ engagement – a living laboratory. The study investigates the features of living labs, including their possible business applications, and searching for the living labs’ analogous among the existing forms of innovation infrastructure units in Russia. Business Model Canvas and comparative analysis are employed to do the research. Taken together, our results support the idea that a living lab is a very special form of innovation infrastructure unit, since it brings a product, technology, or service closer to the market, based on the insights from the end users’ engagement in testing and experimentation

Keywords: living laboratory; innovation infrastructure; cluster; user’s innovations; Business Model Canvas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 O32 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2018
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Published in WP BRP Series: Science, Technology and Innovation / STI, June 2018, pages 1-33

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