TOPIC DEBATE
Our Living Labs need business models that will enable their sustainability beyond a project’s lifecycle, optimal use of time and resources and maximum exploitation of research results from the local community. A key solution to this challenge is to work together towards a Harmonized proposal of services and procedures.
This session will be inspired by the initial results of VITALISE (H2020 project) in the process of Harmonizing Living Labs. An interactive discussion and workshop will take place, aiming to create a common understanding about the services and tools each Living Lab is using. If you are wondering how we can define co-creation, what is the exact meaning of a workshop and what is the difference between real-life testing and prototyping testing, join us to find the answers together.
Despoina Petsani, Research Associate, Lab of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Evdokimos Konstantinidis, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lab of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dimitri Schuurman,Manager Business & Domain Experts Competence Center, Imec
Tuija Hirvikoski, Director at Laurea University of Applied Sciences
Panagiotis Bamidis, Professor of Medical Physics and Informatics in Medical Education, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Silia Petronikolou, Research Associate, Lab of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Despoina Petsani, Research Associate, Lab of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Teemu Santonen, Principal lecturer,Laurea University of Applied Sciences
Despoina Petsani, Research Associate, Lab of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Teemu Santonen, Principal lecturer,Laurea University of Applied Science
President, European Network of Living Labs, Thess-AHALL Researcher,
Dr Evdokimos Konstantinidis is the leader of the Assistive Technologies and Silver Science Research Group in the Lab of Medical Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He received the Diploma in electronic engineering from the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, in 2004, the M.Sc. degree in medical informatics in 2008 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and the Ph.D. degree in the Laboratory of Medical Physics of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2015. His research interests lie predominately in the area of medical informatics, particularly within assistive technologies (silverscience, silvergaming, mobile health)
Laurea University of Applied Sciences
Teemu Santonen received his Ph.D. (Econ.) degree in Information Systems Science from Aalto University in Finland in 2005. Currently he is acting as a “Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS)” principal lecturer at the Laurea University of Applied Sciences in Finland. Prior his academic career Santonen was working over a decade as a consult and a development manager in leading Finnish financial, media and ICT sector organizations. Santonen is also a scientific panel member of International Society of Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) and is former board member of Finnish Strategic Management Society. In Laurea Santonen has been leading Service Design and co-creation research program. Currently he is managing co-creation and business development activities for three major EU-funded project having a total budget over 10 MEUR and including 41 partners across Europe. The Finnish Inventor Support Association have honored Santonen’s novel crowdsourcing based open innovation platform as the best school related innovation in Finland. As of today he has publish over 60 scientific paper. His current research interest focuses on “Open Innovation management”, “Living labs in context of health/wellbeing and circular economy”, and “Social Network Analysis (SNA)”.