Open labs and innovation management : the dynamics of communities and ecosystems
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Open labs and innovation management : the dynamics of communities and ecosystems
（Routledge studies in innovation, organization and technology）
Routledge, 2023
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book examines returns on experience and managerial practices to generate deeper collaboration, intensify co-creation, support start-ups and established companies to explore, develop, and accelerate their projects thanks to open labs (living labs, fab labs, coworking spaces, "third spaces", etc.). Open labs are the beatbox to create a rhythm in ecosystems and make all stakeholders move forward, faster, together. This book proposes a framework to understand how open labs, innovation hubs, and collaborative spaces contribute to ecosystems.
The book looks beyond the short-term effects of open labs and identifies four main dimensions: communities, physical spaces, events, and portfolios of services offered to private businesses, entrepreneurs, and start-ups, established companies, or public institutions. Drawing on extensive field research lasting over five years, with more than 40 cases and more than 200 interviews plus direct observation within different environments, this edited book investigates how managers run these labs, and how "users" or "clients" evolve when benefitting from their services. All chapters analyse how an actual management impacts the dynamics of communities, how it shapes the co-evolution between open labs and their ecosystems, and how the management of the physical space impacts the mission of the lab and its role in the ecosystem.
Open Labs and Innovation Research is written for scholars and researchers in the fields of innovation studies and management science. This book can also inform teaching, public policymaking, and professional practice.
Table of Contents
Introduction PART 1 A taxonomy of open labs and their business models 1. Appraising the diversity of open labs with a taxonomy 2. The business model of open labs: Sustainability at the intersection between scale and community life cycles PART 2 Open labs as innovation intermediaries 3. Art, entrepreneurs, and open labs: New challenges to foster open innovation 4. Living labs: New players in the dynamics of healthcare ecosystems of innovation 5. From spatiality to temporality: Turbocharging innovation ecosystems with events: the case of Hacking Health 6. Communitech in Waterloo, Canada: How open lab organisations can drive a successful entrepreneurial ecosystem 7. Building communities in rural coworking spaces PART 3 Open labs at the origin of new governance models for innovation 8. Cracking the nut from the inside: Innovating from the ground up in highly constrained systems 9. Living labs and innovation commons in healthcare ecosystems: The case of the TransMedTech Institute in Montreal 10. Open Labs in the transition from Triple to Quadruple Helix: Insights from smart cities and healthcare innovation ecosystems Afterword
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