Abstract

Welcome to the November issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This month’s theme is Living Labs, and it is my pleasure to welcome our guest editors, Seppo Leminen, Principal Lecturer at the Laurea University of Applied Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the School of Business at Aalto University in Finland, and Mika Westerlund, Assistant Professor at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business in Ottawa, Canada. In this issue, our guest editors revisit the theme we covered in our popular September 2012 issue on Living Labs (timreview.ca/issue/2012/september).

Highlights

  • Welcome to the December 2018 issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review

  • In 2018, the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) conference took place in Stockholm, one of the central cities of the Nordic countries, which are regarded as the cradle of the living labs movement

  • The authors reflect on various aspects of living labs, positioning them next to other innovation approaches, looking into specific types of living labs, and analyzing specific methods and techniques used in living lab projects

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Summary

From the Guest Editors

Welcome to the December 2018 issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This month’s editorial theme is Living Labs, and it is my pleasure to introduce our guest editors, who have been regular contributors to the journal on this topic: Seppo Leminen (Pellervo Economic Research and Aalto University, Finland, as well as Carleton University, Canada), Dimitri Schuurman (imec, Belgium), Mika Westerlund (Carleton University, Canada), and Eelko Huizingh (University of Groningen, The Netherlands). In this special issue, the authors reflect on various aspects of living labs, positioning them next to other innovation approaches, looking into specific types of living labs, and analyzing specific methods and techniques used in living lab projects. The goal of this framework is to guide practitioners to set up field tests at every stage in the living lab process.

About the Editors
Academic Affiliations and Funding Acknowledgements
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