Entrepreneurial university activity can field or living labs be supportive?

„Field labs? („living labs?) are explored to determine their role in bringing new knowledge from university to market. The case is the Netherlands, a country facing an innovation system in which much new knowledge is created by universities but small amounts are brought to market, apparently caused by various missing links. To arrive at a better...

‘Livings Labs’ for New Health Concepts and Medical Technology in Cluster Development

The development of medical clusters is high on the agenda of many policymakers in the European Union. Constructing medical clusters may draw on the presence of living labs of different kinds in the regions involved. Living labs are practical environments for innovation aiming at a better mix and match between stakeholders for co-development and...

Social networks' openness, university entrepreneurship and differences between regional innovation systems

Enhancing the establishment and growth of spin-off firms from university is receiving an increased attention in local and regional policy today. University spin-off firms are typically in short of resources, reason why social networks play a vital role in their early growth. There is however a lack of understanding of the profile of these...

Facilitating Adoption of International Information Infrastructures: A Living Labs Approach

One of the key challenges that governments face in supervising international supply chains is the need for improving the quality of data accompanying the logistics flow. In many supply chains, individual parties in the chain work with low quality data for their operations and compliance, even though somewhere in the supply chain, better data is...

Living labs: Concepts and critical factors

Living Labs are a relatively new and increasingly popular tool to enhance innovation. Many universities, companies and cities today are involved in Living Labs to bridge barriers in their collaboration and benefit from the input of user groups’ needs and shortening time to market. Despite their popularity, Living Labs just started being subject...