Project description
Open innovation, user experience and living labs : Sharing of best practice across European Living Labs involving SMEs as key user- and provider-participants
The APOLLON project proposal addresses the call of the European Commission to pilot and share best practices in cross-border Living labs networks. The core focus of Living Labs is to improve the R&D process by early participation and clustering of end users and business stakeholders, including SMEs. APOLLON will demonstrate the positive impacts of collaborative cross-border Living Lab networking by setting up an advanced pilot composed of 4 thematically focused Living Lab experiments.
The Living Lab concept has been widely acknowledged, accepted and used as an effective approach to improve the R&D cycle. It is paramount to ensure that the main strength of local implantation does not also constitute a significant weakness in terms of the general applicability, validity and robustness of Living Lab test results, of providing SMEs with access to other European national markets and of offering the scale needed for pan-European product and service innovation. This brings forward an urgent need for hands-on experiences with intensive networking, cross-comparison and scaling up of local LL initiatives.
The exchange of generic, high-level principles and best practices for Living Lab implementation is now being addressed in a number of national and European projects. The next step is to implement a much more detailed analysis of user, market and technology characteristics and an economically more valuable mode of experimentation, by networking, comparing and scaling up cross-border networks of thematically focused, 'vertical' Living Labs in a number of crucial lead markets.
The APOLLON approach leverages past experiences and investments to supplement cross-border pilots of best of class methods for setting up, developing and sustainable operation of Living Labs. A main focus will be on SMEs that have or need access to other European national markets and providing the scale needed for pan-European product or even for global service innovation.
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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CIP-ICT-PSP-2009-3
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9050 GENT
Belgium
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8870 Izegem
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8870 Izegem
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69190 Walldorf
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29590 MALAGA
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02150 Espoo
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02610 Espoo
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00130 HELSINKI
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00210 Helsinki
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92130 ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX
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92130 Issy Les Moulineaux
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92310 Issy les moulineaux
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93526 Saint-Denis
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9025 GYOR
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00135 ROMA
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1096 CJ Amsterdam
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7523XC ENSCHEDE
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6812 AH ARNHEM
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1090 AH Amsterdam
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1013 AA AMSTERDAM
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3068 AX Rotterdam
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2950-402 Palmela
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2829 516 CAPARICA
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3030 320 Coimbra
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1100 231 Lisboa
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2750 368 CASCAIS
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97239 LULEA
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971 87 LULEA
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2000 Maribor
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M60 2LA Manchester
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SY11 4AD Oswestry
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