@article {972, title = {Governing Quintuple Helix Innovation: Urban Living Labs and Socio-Ecological Entrepreneurship}, journal = {Technology Innovation Management Review}, volume = {6}, year = {2016}, month = {03/2016}, pages = {22-30}, publisher = {Talent First Network}, address = {Ottawa}, abstract = {Growing urbanization puts pressure on both social and ecological systems. This pressure raises complex and multi-facetted challenges that can only be tackled by collaborative and distributed innovation development processes. However, theoretical frameworks that assess such collaborations are often very conceptual, with little focus on the actual governance mechanisms that facilitate them. This article studies the urban living lab concept as an inter-organizational design and multi-stakeholder innovation development process to govern the quintuple helix model for innovation by means of an action research based multidimensional case study design, which focuses on the concepts of innovation democracy, mode 3 knowledge production, the innovation ecosystem as a system of societal subsystems, and socio-ecological transition. In this way, we provide a more profound understanding of such innovation processes to tackle socio-ecological challenges by means of public{\textendash}private interactions driven by eco-entrepreneurship. }, keywords = {distributed innovation, quintuple helix innovation, social ecology, socio-ecological entrepreneurship, urban living labs}, issn = {1927-0321}, doi = {http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/972}, url = {http://timreview.ca/article/972}, author = {Bastiaan Baccarne and Sara Logghe and Dimitri Schuurman and Lieven De Marez} } @article {956, title = {The Impact of Living Lab Methodology on Open Innovation Contributions and Outcomes}, journal = {Technology Innovation Management Review}, volume = {6}, year = {2016}, month = {01/2016}, pages = {7-16}, publisher = {Talent First Network}, address = {Ottawa}, abstract = {Open innovation scholars as well as practitioners are still struggling with the practical implementation of open innovation principles in different contexts. In this article, we explore the value of a living lab approach for open innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Using a case study approach, we compared 27 SME projects conducted by iMinds Living Labs from 2011 to 2015. The results suggest that a real-life intervention and a multi-method approach {\textendash} both of which are methodological characteristics of living lab projects {\textendash} increase the chance of generating actionable user contributions for the innovation under development. Moreover, the results also suggest that a living lab project yields maximal value when evolving from concept towards prototype. Besides these exploratory findings, this article also demonstrates that living lab projects are a perfect "playground" to test and validate assumptions from the open innovation literature.}, keywords = {collaboration, distributed innovation, entrepreneur, Innovation management, living labs, Open innovation, SME, startup, user innovation, user involvement}, issn = {1927-0321}, doi = {http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/956}, url = {http://timreview.ca/article/956}, author = {Dimitri Schuurman and Lieven De Marez and Pieter Ballon} }