Open Labs and Innovation Management

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).

Autorentext

Valérie Mérindol is Professor at the Paris School of Business. She teaches the management of creativity and innovation and also knowledge management.

David W. Versailles is Professor at the Paris School of Business, lecturing in strategic management, innovation studies, and business modelling. David is also founding partner and CEO in ISK Consulting SA (Luxembourg), and a visiting professor at Luxembourg School of Business.

Together, Valérie and David co-head the PSB New Practices for Innovation and Creativity (newPIC) chair, which specialises in the investigation of the micro-foundations of innovation and creativity.

Inhalt

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 Montréal 10. Open Labs in the transition from Triple to Quadruple Helix: Insights from smart cities and healthcare innovation ecosystems Afterword