The Impact of Living Lab Methodology on Open Innovation Contributions and Outcomes
The Impact of Living Lab Methodology on Open Innovation Contributions and Outcomes
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DOI：
10.22215/timreview/956
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发表时间：
2016-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
D. Schuurman;L. Marez;P. Ballon
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作者：
D. Schuurman;L. Marez;P. Ballon
开放式创新的学者和实践者仍在努力在不同的背景下实施开放式创新原则。在这篇文章中，我们探讨了生活实验室方法在中小型企业（SMEs）开放式创新中的价值。使用案例研究方法，我们比较了iMinds Living Labs从2011年到2015年进行的27个中小企业项目。结果表明，现实生活中的干预和多方法的方法-这两者都是生活实验室项目的方法学特征-增加了为正在开发的创新产生可操作的用户贡献的机会。此外，研究结果还表明，一个活生生的实验室项目在从概念向原型发展时会产生最大的价值。除了这些探索性的发现，本文还证明了生活实验室项目是一个完美的“游乐场”，以测试和验证开放式创新文献的假设。如果你看看历史，创新不仅仅来自于给人们激励;它来自于创造环境，让他们的想法可以联系起来。
Open innovation scholars as well as practitioners are still struggling with the practical implementation of open innovation principles in different contexts. In this article, we explore the value of a living lab approach for open innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Using a case study approach, we compared 27 SME projects conducted by iMinds Living Labs from 2011 to 2015. The results suggest that a real-life intervention and a multi-method approach – both of which are methodological characteristics of living lab projects – increase the chance of generating actionable user contributions for the innovation under development. Moreover, the results also suggest that a living lab project yields maximal value when evolving from concept towards prototype. Besides these exploratory findings, this article also demonstrates that living lab projects are a perfect "playground" to test and validate assumptions from the open innovation literature. If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.