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ENoLL Thematic Domain Networks
Regional and Territorial
Scope and Objectives
Living Labs are born as a strategy for bringing benefits to ICT R&D, but bymoving out of the research laboratory and into real contexts of living andworking they are assuming ever stronger links with regional policies. Thisterritorial dimension is emerging as a new approach to achieving localdevelopment objectives for promoting a sustainable knowledge economy,transversal to specific application domains such as health, transport, energy orthe environment.Indeed, the user-driven open innovation model highlights the specificcontribution of the milieu where a Living Lab is situated – its people, its culture,its environment, its economic fabric; in a word, its “Territorial Capital” – to theinnovation processes that occur. Living Labs not only define new products andservices for participating ICT R&D actors; they generate broader “TerritorialInnovation” processes for the surrounding community, as the co-designapproach is shaped to meet the concerns and (regional development) needs of citizens and businesses in their specific territories. These dynamics are of vital relevance to regional development and innovationpolicies that, with approximately half of the entire EU budget, thus constitute apotentially significant new procurement market for “demand-driven” R&D.Already, regionally-oriented Living Labs are emerging as a bottom-upphenomena, coming from the local level where development funding ismanaged and concrete benefits are first seen. ENoLL can meet the challenge of answering this bottom-up process with a structuring response from theEuropean level, through:
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an operational mapping of the dynamics linking Living Labs with regionaldevelopment, based on a comparative analysis of Living Labs in differentterritorial contexts;
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specific case instances that demonstrate the concrete benefits of a LivingLab to the surrounding region;
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the development of common methodologies that maximise the synergiesbetween a Living Lab and the specific context where it is set up, includingthe integration of Living Labs with local governance structures such as Localand Coastal Action Groups, Territorial Pacts, River and Landscape Contracts,etc.
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identification of markets and priority application areas with a territorialdimension, i.e. urban renewal, environmental management, etc., anddevelopment of business models adapted to development-orientedprocurement;
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operational and procedural proposals for integration of the Living Labapproach into sustainable development, innovation and information societypolicies at the local and regional level, with the coordination of strategiesand priorities at the EU level.
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