This document summarizes an open innovation process in Lyon, France focused on mobility challenges. It describes: 1) The city of Lyon's innovative ecosystem including public-private laboratories, a cluster dedicated to urban innovation, and partners across 13 European cities. 2) Two organizations, UrbanLab and TUBA, that connect public, private, and academic actors to develop solutions through projects, research, and experimentation. 3) A mobility challenge program where 69 people generated 6 prototypes over 2 weeks to improve the traveler experience through digital uses. The projects were documented and released openly. 4) The goal of fostering collaboration across expertise areas, enriching the mobility ecosystem, co-developing open solutions

1. PUBLIC-PRIVATE OPEN-INNOVATION PROCESS
AT THE SERVICE OF GENERAL INTEREST
“Mobility Challenge” Example
Patrick VINCENT / ERASME

2. LYON, CONDITIONS
FOR CO-INNOVATION
INNOVATIVE
projects
103
INHABITANTS
in Lyon Metropole
(+5% in 5 years)
1,300,000
JOBS
in digital technology
and creative industries
50 700CITY FOR
ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN
2016
(L’Express – L’Entreprise 2016)
1ST
public and private
LABORATORIES
550
1 CLUSTER
of excellence dedicated
« INTELLIGENCE OF URBAN
WORLDS »
invested
€340M
FRENCH
SMART GRID
TERRITORY
1ST
PARTNERS
including
13 european cities
289
1ST
european
NEW MOBILITY
TERRITORY

3. URBANLAB
Public Do-Tank part of Metropole de Lyon developing
and experimenting innovative uses of digital
technologies for local authorities / public policies
● Animates each year open-innovation programs
and research partnerships on general-interest
● Interconnects and empowers 1500 public and
private innovative actors of the territory
● Prototypes and produce several dozens of original
methodology and opensource services in our
UrbanLab
● Participates to the transformation of the public
administration
PUBLIC SERVICE DESIGN
PROTOTYPING
COMMONS
i am
working
here

4. TUBA
Non-profit Living Lab, middleware between large
businesses, startups, end users and the local authority.
● Supports and clusters big companies in their UX
transformation
● Fosters innovation, incubation and development
of urban services utilizing private and public
urban data
● Experiments and evaluates services of the city
of tomorrow including mediation to citizens
● A 700 m2 « THIRD PLACE » at Part Dieu district
(business center of Lyon).
PRIVATE/PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP
OPENDATA
EXPERIMENTATION

5. INNOVATION IS A
COLLABORATIVE &
UNCERTAIN
PROCESS
PROSPECTIVE ACADEMIC
RESEARCH
IMMERSION ECOSYSTEM
CONNEXION
PUBLIC
ISSUES
USAGE
INNOVATION
PROTOTYPING
EXPERIMENTA
TION
BUSINESS
PLAN INDUSTRIALIS
ATION
TERRITORIAL
GOVERNANCE
2006 2018
Charvet Industries - 2018
Vincent Autin - 2006

6. METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IS THE STARTING POINT
Impulse agility, right to experimentation, and
culture of confidence in big organisations
Open economical models to create impulses to
the prospective subjects and promote startups
emergence
...
Transit from a management of infrastructures
to a codeveloppement of general interest uses
Overcome the competition between the digital
practices and face-to-face experience
...
EXTERNALLYINTERNALLY

7. MOBILITY CHALLENGE
USES
PUBLIC POLICIES
GOVERNANCE
ECONOMY
COMMON
PLANNING
TERRITORIES
SERVICES
INFRASTRUCTURE
PRODUCTION
MOBILITY
TRANSPORT
1. Innovate through the uses and
decompartmentalization of expertise
2. Enrich and animate the ecosystem of mobility
innovators
3. Initiate a new economic model: co-financed
public-private partnership R&D thought as open /
as a service solutions
4. Support the internal transformation

8. HOW DIGITAL USES CAN SERVE THE TRAVELER EXPERIENCE ?
6 prototypes of a user
experience
2 weeks
69 participants
4 public challenges
related to the traveling experience
5 MH and 50 K€
OPEN INNOVATION
SPRINT
Deliverables documented
and released under open
source license
METHODOLOGY / ANIMATION FINANCING / PRODUCTION
DESIGNER
MOBILITY
EXPERT
DIGITAL
EXPERT
GAMEDESIGN
LIGHT MANUFACTURE
HYBRID REALITIES
BOT / IA
ELECTRONIC
COLLABORATIVE TOOLS
INDUS. CULTURAL
PSYCHOLOGIST
4TRINOMIALPROJECTTEAMRESOURCES

9. COLLECTIVE INSPIRATION / PUBLIC CHALLENGES
YoKaminagaï
DesignmanagerRATP
MichelLussault
Geographer
directoroftheLyonUrban
School

10. IMMERSION

11. IDEATION

12. PROTOTYPING

13. SENSE AND
DIVE
Ceiling display in the rolling
stock (bus, tram or subway) in
interaction with the presence
of travelers and territory
Goals
● Improvement of the flow
of travelers
● Improved sense of
well-being
● Interaction between
passengers
http://www.erasme.org/Sense-Dive

14. I AM THE BUS
An AI to converse with the
memory of a public transit
creating an asynchronous link
between regular travelers on
the same line.
Using a chatbot, the traveler
dialogues with the personified
bus and shares personal
content related to the trip,
contributing to a collective
history.

15. FINAL PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS
Documented and released under CCbySA
and MIT license
https://www.erasme.org/#projets
A device to initiate mutual aid
between travelers
An AI to converse with the memory
of a public transport
Transform your waiting time in
intermodal situation
Interactive ceiling screen device
sensitive to the presence of
travelers in rolling stock
Interactive and playful device to
strike up a conversation in a
crossing point.

16. GENERAL-INTEREST THIRD-PLACE(À RETRADUIRE)
“INTELLIGENCE OF URBAN WORLDS”
PUBLIC POLICY
DO-TANK
UNIVERSITY
URBAN
RESEARCH
CORPORATE
LIVING-LAB
PUBLIC
POLICIES
CREATIVE
INDUSTRIES
/ COMMUNITIES
CORPORATE
INNOVATORS
EDUCATION
INDUSTRIES
STARTUPS
SERVICE /
ACCOMPANYING
ANIMATION /
REGULATION /
LABELLISATION
MUTUALIZATION /
RESOURCE
EDITING PRODUCTS
DISSEMINATION OF
KNOWLEDGE
MISSIONS
MODELS
INCARNATE A SUSTAINABLE
PUBLIC THIRD PLACE
BRIDGES
ECOSYSTEMS
PRODUCES
EXPERIMENTATIONS AND
COMMONS
CONDUCTS DISRUPTIVE
GENERAL INTEREST
PROGRAMS
short times
long time
COMPETITIVITY
CLUSTERS
direct value
hidden value

17. THANK YOU
Patrick VINCENT / ERASME
@pvin
pvincent@erasme.org