TY - JOUR T1 - Open Innovation Processes in Living Lab Innovation Systems: Insights from the LeYLab JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2013 A1 - Dimitri Schuurman A1 - Lieven De Marez A1 - Pieter Ballon KW - knowledge exchange KW - living labs KW - Open innovation KW - open innovation networks KW - user innovation AB - Living labs have emerged on the crossroads of the open innovation and user innovation frameworks. As open innovation systems, living labs consist of various actors with each playing their specific role. Within this article, we will take an open innovation perspective by analyzing the knowledge spill-overs between living lab actors through three in-depth innovation case studies taking place within the LeYLab living lab in Kortrijk, Belgium. The results illustrate how living labs foster the three open innovation processes of exploration, exploitation, and retention. From our analysis, we conclude that living labs are particularly useful for exploration and, to a lesser extent, exploitation. In terms of retention, living labs seem to hold a large potential; however, the success and the nature of the innovation processes depend on the sustainability of living labs, the number of innovation cases, and the alignment of these cases with the living lab infrastructure. Based on these findings, a concrete set of guidelines is proposed for innovating in living labs and for setting up a living lab constellation. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 3 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/743 IS - 11 U1 - iMinds Dimitri Schuurman is a Senior Researcher at the iMinds Media & ICT (MICT) research group and is responsible for the methodology of living lab projects facilitated by iMinds iLab.o. His involvement in living labs started in 2010 with the Mediatuin and LeYLab living labs. To date, he has managed over 30 concrete living lab projects that deal with new media and innovative use of ICT. He is currently finishing his PhD on living labs at Ghent University in Belgium. U2 - iMinds Lieven De Marez is Research Director of the iMinds Media & ICT (MICT) research group and teaches on the topics of innovation research and new communication technologies in the Department of Communication Sciences at Ghent University in Belgium. MICT is one of 16 research groups within iMinds, and Lieven is also part of the management team of iLab.o, iMinds’ facilitating infrastructure for living lab research. U3 - iMinds Pieter Ballon is Director Living Labs at iMinds and Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. He also heads iMinds’ Market Innovation & Sector Transition research team, specializing in new business models for the telecommunications and media industries. He leads various national and international projects on open innovation platforms, real-life ICT experiments, and business models for media and ICT services. Since 2009, Pieter is the International Secretary of the European Network of Living Labs. From 2006 to 2007, he coordinated the joint research on business models for future mobile IP-based systems of the Wireless World Initiative (WWI) in the EU 6th Framework Programme. ER -