Innovation Management in Living Lab projects
TIME
Thursday, 9th September, 11:30 -13:00 CEST
GOAL
Get familiar with imec’s Innovation Board, its methodology and the online tool that helps you structure and focus your Living Lab projects.
CHALLENGE
Living labs are complex partnerships that enable quadruple helix innovation projects. There is an abundance of literature and online resources on Living Lab tools and co-creation activities. However, surprisingly, there is a lack of practitioner tools specifically designed for innovation management in living labs. Therefore, in order to help practitioners in the selection of living lab activities and also to allow more comparisons and benchmarking between different projects and living lab organizations, at imec we designed the Innovatrion Board as an assumption-based innovation canvas with an assumptionbased methodology, designed in and for the context of living lab projects. Moreover, we also developed an online platform, IVTx, that allows to log and follow-up on individual Living Lab projects, completely in line with the Innovation Board methodology. During the workshop, we will introduce the Innovation Board by means of a very clear example and subsequently split the group in (maximum 5) thematic groups where each group will work in the digital IVTx platform with a specific case linked to the theme of the group.
OBJECTIVE
-Insight into the Innovation Board, its 8 elements and the relation between them
-Introduction to the Innovation Board methodology
-Understanding of the Innovation Board and the digital platform by mapping a specific case directly in the board
-Getting ready to use the Innovation Board with your own case(s)
OUTCOMES
TANGIBLE -All participants will be able to create their own login to the platform and use it for their own individual Living Lab projects
INTANGIBLE -The participants will gain a deeper understanding of innovation management specifically in the context of Living Labs by the example cases and by the group work
BRIEF OUTLINE / METHODOLOGY
VALUE FOR PARTICIPANTS
Intro on methodology and Innovation Board with an insightful example of an imec Living Lab project
Break-out sessions for Urban & Rural resilience, Digital Social Innovation, Health & Well-being, and Living labs for a greener future.
Introduction of the project/case to be used in the exercise, group work
Debrief and closure
The participants will all be able to use the Innovation Board and the digital IVTx platform afterwards for their own projects. The workshop will help them in structuring and improving their Living Lab projects and the inherent innovation activities. This will allow them to bring more clarity and focus into their Living Lab organization, projects and activities.
AUDIENCE
All Living Lab practitioners or practitioners-to-be (public sector, private sector, researchers as well as active citizens/users).
MAX NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS
40
FACILITATORS
Dimitri Schuurman
Manager Business & Domain Experts imec's Digital Transformation Department
Dimitri Schuurman
Manager Business & Domain Experts imec's Digital Transformation Department
Dimitri Schuurman leads the Business & Domain Expertise Center at imec's Digital Transformation Department focussing on the domains Smart Cities, Mobility & Public Health. He holds a PhD on Living Lab organizations from Ghent University & the Free University of Brussels in Belgium. Together with his imec colleagues, Dimitri developed a specific Innovation Management approach & framework (called Innovatrix) which is specifically designed for multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary innovation projects. He also leads a Special Interest Group on Living Labs in the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) and is active in the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) as a Living Labs specialist. His main interests and research topics are situated in the domains of open innovation, user innovation and innovation management.
Aron-Levi Herregodts
Aron-Levi Herregodts
Aron-Levi Herregodts is Innovation Manager at imec. He holds a master’s degrees in Communication Sciences (2013) and Complementary Business Economics (2014). He is the imec.livinglabs product owner of Innovatrix and the Innovation Board, and applies this methodological approach on a day-to-day basis to a wide-variety of innovation projects. Nowadays he focuses on data-driven business models.
Thomas De Meester
Thomas De Meester
Thomas De Meester is an UX Designer, Innovation manager and product owner at imec. Driven by digital design, products and services, he has been helping companies create and improve their products over the past years. For the last 4 years, Thomas has been responsible for the development of the digital application Innovatrix. He graduated as a product developer at the university of Antwerp, the city where he is currently living.
