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Living Labs as Tools for Open Innovation
No full textThis 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.Living Labs, Open innovation, Electronic Collaboration Tools
Extracurricular Science Labs for STEM Talent Support
No full textIn the past decade, a growing lack of engineers, natural scientists, information technology experts, and mathematicians has been noted, especially in Europe. Corresponding to the need to attract young people to science and technology, numerous extracurricular science labs
(“out-of-school labs”) have been established, especially in Germany. One of these initiatives is the DLR_School_Lab Oberpfaffenhofen, operated by Germany’s national research center for aeronautics and space, DLR, and a typical example of such an out-of-school lab. It offers hands-on experiments for secondary-school classes, advanced teacher training, and, as a special feature, enrichment courses for gifted students. In this article the concept behind the DLR_School_Lab is described, as well as the suitability of this lab to offer enrichment projects for talented school students. Other aspects discussed are its teacher education concept and the
effectiveness of the concept of extracurricular science labs
Urban Living Labs: A living lab way of working
No full textUrban living labs have become a popular phenomenon in today’s cities. The Living Lab approach would provide real life research with its multiple stakeholders in a co-innovating inclusive setting, crucial in creating metropolitan solutions with impact, that will be adopted smoothly and swiftly by all involved, and thus help achieve prosperous living environments that are more liveable, sustainable, resilient and just. With these ambitions, urban living labs are important links in the achievement of the goals of AMS Institute as well as the City of Amsterdam. But what exactly are urban living labs?The aim of the research was to develop a methodology to facilitate systematic achievement of the living lab goals and ambitions in practice. How do urban living labs work? How can they contribute to a more sustainable environment? And how can you set up a successful urban living lab?Based on a literature review of living labs and urban living labs and a quick scan of 90 local innovation projects in the Amsterdam region, defining characteristics of urban living labs have been identified.Also the core methodological components of urban living labs have been distilled from proposed living lab methodologies and process aspects repetitively referred to in urban living lab literature. In-depth case studies of the innovation processes of innovations that have emerged in living labs in Amsterdam have been conducted to research how urban living labs work in practice. This has led to conditions that have shown to be necessary for allowing successful emergence, implementation and replication of innovations in urban context.Urban Development Managemen
Festivals as Living Labs for System Innovation: Experiences from the interdisciplinary innovation programme DORP
No full textThe use of Living Labs is a promising approach to develop and test sustainable system innovations. A Living Lab approach that is yet to be discussed in literature, is that of a Festival Living Lab (FLL). Festivals can be considered as temporary mini societies with systemic sustainability challenges regarding water, energy, housing, logistics, waste management, food and behaviour. Since a festival is built up from scratch every time the event is hosted, adjustments can be made to its overarching system, and mutual interrelations between different aspects of the system can be experimented with. To evaluate the potential of FLLs as effective real-life experimentation settings for sustainable system innovation we present the Living Lab Activity Framework (LLAF), distinguishing various innovation stages and system levels. We deploy the LLAF to evaluate a selection of innovation projects within the DORP Festival Living Lab at the Welcome to The Village festival in The Netherlands, demonstrating that festivals can host various stages of the innovation process on different system levels.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Design for Sustainabilit
MINT Talent Support in School Labs – New Perspectives for Gifted Youth and for Teachers of the Gifted
No full textIn the past decade some 300 extracurricular education facilities have been established in Europe, most of them in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The majority of these facilities are so-called ‘school labs’, their mission being to increase the awareness for mathematics, informatics, natural sciences, and engineering (MINT) and, correspondingly, attract young people to these faculties. The origin of this development is a pronounced and growing lack of engineers and scientists; the present (2012) engineers’ gap in Germany is about 100.000.
Several of these school labs focus on MINT talent support, offering a diversity of special enrichment programs and projects to gifted and motivated students. The DLR_School_Lab Oberpfaffenhofen, operated by Germany's national research center for aeronautics and space, DLR, is a typical example of such a school lab devoted to both objectives of broad education and focused MINT talent support. The lab’s expertise has been gained in the past decade with approx. 18,000 secondary school students and about 50 enrichment projects for gifted students.
MINT talent support means, on the one hand, institutions and measures for gifted students. In this paper examples of respective curricular and extracurricular activities will be described, emphasizing the special synergy of the Hector Seminar and the DLR_School_Lab. On the other hand, the role of talent supporters – especially teachers – is crucial in the process of attracting young people to the MINT disciplines. An example of good practice is the inclusion of the DLR_School_Lab in the ECHA advanced teacher education at the ICBF in Münster, which will also be addressed
Innovation spaces: transforming humanitarian practice in the United Nations
No full textPresents new research on the objectives, motivations, and challenges of ‘innovation spaces’ in humanitarian and development work.
Introduction
The use of the term ‘lab’, more commonly seen in the physical and natural sciences, conjures a sense of a safe haven for experimentation, focused problem solving and solution creation. As laboratories for innovation have become part and parcel of innovation in the UN system, there is a pressing need to understand more about what these labs can truly offer and whether they should be isolated, instead of mainstreaming innovation into an agency.
This research seeks to understand the way in which innovation labs across several UN agencies are being used to foster new ways of operating within the UN’s bureaucratic structures. Asks three key questions to help unpack how innovation labs are taking shape and to inform lessons for future labs about what works and what does not, in trying to achieve a culture of innovation and improved humanitarian solutions. These questions are:
• What form do innovation labs in UN agencies take?
• What motivated their initiation? What are their aims and objectives?
• What impact have they had and how is the impact being measured?
 
Livinggreen Labs: A report on the development of a co design-based engagement method
No full textThe publication in front of you presents the full results of the six Livinggreen Labs that have been organised during the course of the Livinggreen.eu project. The primary goal of these Labs was to develop and test a methodology to engage stakeholders, including end-users, in sustainable renovation of cultural heritage buildings. This was a part of the project as a whole, about which you will also read. A separate publication was made for each individual Livinggreen Lab. This overall publication pulls these results together, providing an overview of the methodology as was developed and tested with these labs. By considering the full results it is easier to recognise the flexibility that needs to be allowed when considering to use this ‘Livinggreen Lab’ method in the future. The five themes in the project were Energy, Water, Eco-Materials, Architectonic values and Climate Resilience. On all topics the project team from Delft University of Technology (DUT) worked together with another partner. These were respectively: City of Ludwigsburg (Germany), EcoHouse Antwerp (Belgium), National Trust (UK), City of Lille (France) and White Rose Foundation (The Netherlands). The diversity of themes and partners combined with the desire to develop a methodology that can be repeated was a formidable challenge, on which the DUT team has worked with a lot of energy. Each development, expected and less so, has contributed to our overall insights of the usability and relevance of the methodology “Livinggreen Labs”. Besides pulling the reports of each individual Lab together, we will share some of these insights with you in this document, and refer to deeper analyses in related papers that the team has produced.Design EngineeringIndustrial Design Engineerin
Characterizing nature-based living labs from their seeds in the past
No full textNature-based living labs combine the elements of nature-based solution design with a living lab context to address social and environmental resilience challenges. There is a need to deepen insights on the characteristics of the emergent phenomenon of nature-based living labs, with respect to their predecessors. Accordingly, the paper first develops an outline of how living labs evolved into nature-based living labs, informed by bibliometric analysis. Second, the unique characteristics of nature-based living labs are identified using a systematic literature review. Finally, the core characteristics of living labs are determined, and nature-based living labs are placed within this context. Initial living labs had a strong technological focus, which proliferated into diverse application domains and regions after the European Network of Living Labs was established and expanded. Urban living labs emerged as a significant multidisciplinary and geographically specific domain, while nature-based living labs are inherently sustainability-oriented and consider ecosystem processes, interactions, and natural materials. Next, the paper identifies nine characteristics of nature-based living labs, five of which are always present, namely: (i) real-life spatial context and multi-scale, (ii) innovation and learning, (iii) user-centric, (iv) multi-actor involvement and (v) sustainability-oriented multiple benefits. Then, the four core characteristics of living labs, the variation within these characteristics, and how these align with the characteristics of nature-based living labs are clarified. Finally, the need for research on living labs across application domains and regions is highlighted, so that the global applicability of these local, user-centric, innovative approaches can be established.Multi Actor SystemsPolicy Analysi
Data from 617 healthy participants performing the Iowa gambling task: a "many labs" collaboration
No full textThis data pool (N = 617) comes from 10 independent studies assessing performance of healthy participants (i.e., no known neurological impairments) on the Iowa gambling task (IGT) - a task measuring decision making under uncertainty in an experimental context. Participants completed a computerized version of the IGT consisting of 95 - 150 trials. The data consist of the choices of each participant on each trial, and the resulting rewards and losses. The data are stored as .rdata, .csv, and .txt files, and can be reused to (1) analyze IGT performance of healthy participants; (2) create a "super control group"; or (3) facilitate model-comparison efforts
Correction: Standards Without Labs: Drug Development in the Psychedelic Underground
No full textThis article details a correction to: Bailey, J. and Kempner, J., 2022. Standards Without Labs: Drug Development in the Psychedelic Underground. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 7(1), p.41. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.52
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