Introducing the European Network of Living Labs, its members, projects and connections to the healthcare domain

1. Smart Health Event – Amsterdam ArenA
April 14th, 2014
Paolo Aversano (@paoloaversano)
European Network of Living Labs
@openlivinglabs #LivingLabs
#smartcities #creativecities #ehealth
#openinnovation #healthcare

2. What is ENoLL about?

4. Diversity!!
Community: Living Lab researchers and Living
Labs practisioners
Network: +320 accredited Living Labs
International non-profit association: facilitates
cooperation and exploitation of synergies
between members

5. Living Labs
A Living Lab is a real-life test
and experimentation
environment
where users and producers
co-create innovations
in a trusted, open ecosystem
that enables business and
societal innovation

6. Evaluation Criteria
Operations:
Evidence of expertise gained from the LL operations
Business-citizens-government partnership - strength & maturity
Organization of LL governance, management & operations
Interest and capacity to be active in EU innovation system
Openness:
Level of own commitment to open innovation process
IPR principles supporting capability and openness
Openness towards new partners and investors
Channels (web etc.) supporting public visibility and interaction
Resources:
Availability of required technology and/or test beds
Business model for LL sustainability
International networking experience and capability
People/positions dedicated to Ll management & operations
Users &
Reality:
Measures to involve users
Reality of usage contexts, where the Ll runs its operations
User-centricity within the entire service process
Quality of user-driven innovation methods and tools
Value:
Evidence of co-created values from Res Dev and Innovation
Values/Services offered/provided to LL actors
Full product lifecycle support - capability and maturity
LL covers several entities within value-chain(s)

7. ENoLL: Supporting organisation to
the Open living labs community
•ENoLL Office in Brussels facilitates knowledge exchange, joint
action and project partnerships between the members
•Community management, communications, dissemination
•Partner in key strategic initiatives and projects of strategic
importance and benefit to the whole network (14 projects)
•Services to members
•Policy influencing
•Engagement with other networks and initiatives
•Worldwide reference point for #livinglabs
•OpenLivingLab days (ENoLL Summer School and Open Living
Lab Summit)

8. ENoLL and City Innovation: The trend
-New generation of Living Labs (scale and
maturity): City as a Lab / City and regional
networks
-Increasing trend in cities interested in
ENoLL/Living Labs
-City ecosystem represented by innovation
brokering organisations
-Incubation of networks
-Capitalisation of project results

9. Observing the ENoLL Living
Lab ecosystem

10. Living Labs supporting EIP_AHA

11. Overview of best practices
from ENoLL community
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• Coventry Citilab (UK):
– Warm Neighbourhoods®, AroundMe™, Serious Games: Business and societal
objectives. Best practice in Co-creation  service design, business models, service
blueprint + User stories.
• iMinds (Belgium):
– Care Living Labs: Scaling and measuring Living Lab + societal/business impact
– Care4Balance: Iterative co-creative R&D approach
– Zorg Proeftuinen: Innovative solution for elderly people, galaxy of regional projects
• AIM (+Waag) (NL):
– Health-Labs: AHA & SmartCitizen, scale, diversity of “Labs”, Serious Gaming
• SU R&D Living Lab (Quebec): Analysis of Medical augmented reality, focus on minimally
invasive surgery and prostate curietheraphy
• Laurea University of Applied Sciences (Finland):
– M-Health booster – RDI: Scale, network of Labs/testing environments
– Guarantee project: Involvement tof big tech. companies + Living Labs, Ethics, privacy,
data security
• GAIA (Spain):
– ObesiTIC Project: Living Lab as a service
– Centre of Innovation and Excellence (CoIE) on Embedded Systems for health
Applications: building on knowledge and best practices

12. Summary
Trends involving users in AHA

13. ENoLL and its projects
Why?
• To contribute to building ENoLL assets, sometimes also
targeted by ENoLL working groups;
• To support joint activities in-between ENoLL members,
typically gathered in groups or sub-networks related to
ENoLL thematic domains;
• To contribute to meet one or several ENoLL objectives as
per bylaws.
Habitual tasks in projects: dissemination, community
building, exploitation, linking projects to members through
e.g. best practices or tools.

14. ENoLL and its projects
Smart cities Future Internet
Creative industries Design, gamification, …

15. Strategic initiatives
Collaboration with the World Bank, where ENoLL is supporting
the creation of a toolbox for cities to improve public services,
increase civic participation and drive green growth.

16. The ENoLL
OpenLivingLab Days
2014

17. OpenLivingLab days 2014
Amsterdam Sep 2-5
ENoLL Summer School + Open Living Lab Summit

18. OpenLivingLab days 2014
A Living Lab mosaic made of:
- Research day
- Visits to Dutch Living Labs
- Workshops
- World Living Lab Summit
- Specific track on e-health
and Living Labs
The OpenLivingLab Days 2014

19. Paolo Aversano
European Network of Living Labs
Paolo.aversano@enoll.org
@paoloaversano
@openlivinglabs
info@enoll.org
www.openlivinglabs.eu