%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2016 %T Governing Quintuple Helix Innovation: Urban Living Labs and Socio-Ecological Entrepreneurship %A Bastiaan Baccarne %A Sara Logghe %A Dimitri Schuurman %A Lieven De Marez %K distributed innovation %K quintuple helix innovation %K social ecology %K socio-ecological entrepreneurship %K urban living labs %X 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–private interactions driven by eco-entrepreneurship. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 6 %P 22-30 %8 03/2016 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/972 %N 3 %1 iMinds – MICT – Ghent University Bastiaan Baccarne is a Research and Teaching Assistant at iMinds-MICT, a research group within the communications department of Ghent University, where he works on the topic of user-centric innovation development in the context of (new) media and ICT. Bastiaan is also a PhD student working on citizen empowerment through the co-development of socio-technical innovations in an urban environment. Being part of iMinds Living Labs, Bastiaan works as a user researcher for several SME and startup projects, with an overall academic focus on the possibilities and limitations of user-centric innovation development ecosystems. %2 iMinds – MICT – Ghent University Sara Logghe obtained a master’s degree in both History and Communication Sciences with specialization in New Media and Society at Ghent University. Her second master's thesis was Cultural Communication on the Internet: A Study on the Potential of Social Media for Cultural Institutions. A three-month internship at iMinds Living Labs encouraged her interest in research on living labs, and in May 2013, Sara joint iMinds-MICT as a Junior Researcher. Working on cultural projects within living lab research, Sara developed a specific interest in the changing library scene. %3 iMinds – MICT – Ghent University Dimitri Schuurman holds a PhD (2015) and Master's in Communication Sciences (2003) from Ghent University in Belgium. He joined the research group iMinds – MICT – Ghent University in 2005 and started working at iMinds Living Labs in 2009. Together with his iMinds colleagues, Dimitri developed a specific living lab offering targeted at startups and SMEs, in which he has managed over 50 innovation projects. As a senior researcher, Dimitri is currently responsible for the methodology and academic valorization of living lab projects. He also coordinates a dynamic team of living lab researchers from iMinds – MICT – Ghent University. His main interests and research topics are situated in the domains of open innovation, user innovation, and innovation management. In early 2015, he finished his PhD entitled Bridging the Gap between Open and User Innovation? Exploring the Value of Living Labs as a Means to Structure User Contribution and Manage Distributed Innovation. %4 iMinds – MICT – Ghent University Lieven De Marez is Research Director of the iMinds Media & ICT (MICT) research group and teaches on the topics of innovation research, media, market and ICT, 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 iMinds Living Labs’ facilitating infrastructure for living lab research. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/972 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2016 %T The Impact of Living Lab Methodology on Open Innovation Contributions and Outcomes %A Dimitri Schuurman %A Lieven De Marez %A Pieter Ballon %K collaboration %K distributed innovation %K entrepreneur %K Innovation management %K living labs %K Open innovation %K SME %K startup %K user innovation %K user involvement %X 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 – both of which are methodological characteristics of living lab projects – 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. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 6 %P 7-16 %8 01/2016 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/956 %N 1 %1 iMinds and Ghent University Dimitri Schuurman holds a PhD (2015) and Master's degree in Communication Sciences (2003) from Ghent University in Belgium. He joined the research group iMinds – MICT – Ghent University in Belgium in 2005 and started working at iMinds Living Labs in 2009. Together with his iMinds colleagues, Dimitri developed a specific living lab offering targeted at startups and SMEs, in which he has managed over 50 innovation projects. As a senior researcher, Dimitri is currently responsible for the methodology and academic valorization of living lab projects. He also coordinates a dynamic team of living lab researchers from iMinds – MICT – Ghent University. His main interests and research topics are situated in the domains of open innovation, user innovation, and innovation management. In early 2015, he finished his PhD entitled Bridging the Gap between Open and User Innovation? Exploring the Value of Living Labs as a Means to Structure User Contribution and Manage Distributed Innovation. %2 iMinds and Ghent University Lieven De Marez is Head of the research group for Media & ICT (MICT) and Manager of iMinds Living Labs media activities at Ghent University in Belgium. He has obtained a Master in Communication Sciences (1999) and Marketing (2000) and wrote a PhD titled Diffusion of ICT Innovations: More Accurate User Insight for Better Introduction Strategies. His main expertise is in the development of "segmentation forecast" tools for prior-to-launch adoption potential forecasts for new media and ICT innovations. He continuously seeks to explore new methodologies and understand emerging media use patterns and the impact of new media and ICT and making media innovation more user-centric. At the department of Communication Studies, he founded and coordinates the Master's program on New Media & Society. %3 European Network of Living Labs Pieter Ballon is the International Secretary of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL). He specializes in business modelling, open innovation, and the mobile telecommunications industry. Formerly, he was Senior Consultant and Team Leader at TNO. From 2006 to 2007, he was the coordinator of the cross issue on business models of the Wireless World Initiative (WWI) that united five integrated projects in the EU 6th Framework Programme. He holds a PhD in Communication Sciences and an MA in Modern History. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/956