Abstract
Enhancing Early Innovation in an Urban Living Lab: Lessons from Espoo, Finland
Highlights
Living laboratories have increasingly been used as platforms for innovation and experimentation in urban areas, involving key features of open innovation, a multistakeholder approach, real-life environments, and residents as users (Friedlich et al, 2013; Veeckman & Graaf, 2015)
We focus on socially oriented urban living labs, which are characterized by citizen participation, strong collaboration with local stakeholders, and the aim to create concepts and methodology that can be transferred into other contexts
The strength of socially oriented urban living labs situated in a certain geographical region lies in the dissemination of local knowledge along emerging social networks (Melkas & Harmaakorpi, 2008)
Summary
Living laboratories have increasingly been used as platforms for innovation and experimentation in urban areas, involving key features of open innovation, a multistakeholder approach, real-life environments, and residents as users (Friedlich et al, 2013; Veeckman & Graaf, 2015). Personal knowledge is seen mostly as a positive contribution, but Darsø warns that it may include personal beliefs and attitudes that may hinder group development, rather than open up new possibilities In addition to these modes of knowledge, it is important to acknowledge the role of tacit knowledge that is transformed into explicit concepts in innovation processes (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995). The workshop process yielded four experiments, which each represented new forms of practices in urban development They represented social innovations, such as co-planning of a local community house, a multi-actor steering group for regional development, a multicultural food festival, and a multi-event square for citizens. This analysis was guided by the following research questions: 1. How are the features of the preject manifested in workshop activities?
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