European network of living labs

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Description of what the network is about

The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is the international, non-profit, independent association of benchmarked Living Labs. Living Labs are real-life test and experimentation environments that foster co-creation and open innovation among the main actors of the Quadruple Helix Model, namely:

  • Citizens
  • Government
  • Industry
  • Academia

ENoLL facilitates knowledge exchange, joint actions and project partnerships between its historically labelled +480 members in Europe and worldwide.

Societal problem they want to address

Its aim is to promote the Living Labs concept in order to influence EU policies, enhance Living Labs and enable their implementation at a global level.

Societal domain

General / governance arrangements

Basic aim of network

Federation of living labs: platform for best practice exchange, learning and support, living lab development.

Contribution

ENoLL facilitates knowledge exchange, joint actions and project partnerships between its historically labelled +480 members in Europe and worldwide.

How ENoLL views Living Labs:

  • Living Labs (LLs) are open innovation ecosystems in real-life environments using iterative feedback processes throughout a lifecycle approach of an innovation to create sustainable impact.
  • They focus on co-creation, rapid prototyping & testing and scaling-up innovations & businesses, providing (different types of) joint-value to the involved stakeholders.
  • In this context, living labs operate as intermediaries/orchestrators among citizens, research organisations, companies and government agencies/levels.
  • Within a wide variety of living labs, they all have common characteristics, but multiple different implementations.

For more information

https://enoll.org/

Entry done by

Aleksi Salmela