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Living Labs are one example of the open innovation 2.0 ecosystem development (beyond traditional test beds that have usually been technology driven) – all Living Lab experiences have in common a user-centric co-design process for development and implementation of innovative ICT-based products and services, being instrumental to the integration of RDI with territorial development policy, assuming different possible configurations (which depend on the structure of the underlying innovation system) : as vertical tools for promoting user-driven RDI in a given sector (e.g. eHealth, Mobility, eGovernment, Cultural Heritage or eInclusion); as ‘orchestration’ agents between individual users, citizens, grassroots communities (bottom-up) and the other 4P stakeholders and as territorial innovation or “Smart Regional” models.
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This text was written in collaboration with ENoLL, Jaime Quesado (New Europe) and the Open Innovation 2.0 team DG CNECT