Artur SerraCollabs Workshop
Regional LL Policy for Benefits SMEsJanuary 27, 2010
CatlabCatlabLiving Labs in Living Labs in
ActionAction
1. The Regions: Laboratories for the new user-driven innovation system.
Catlab: 7 Members accredited by EnoLL:
• i2cat, www.i2cat.net • “BCN Living lab”:
– 22@,www.22barcelona.com – Bdigital,www.bdigital.org – Citilab,www.citila.eu – Tecnoampus Mataro,– Neapolis-Vilanova,www.neapolis.cat
• Guifinet,www.guifi.net
CATLAB members
2. Living Labs as a social innovation.
Living Labs as a social innovation and a social “IP layer”.
• 1. First Hispalab Meeting, 2009. Citilab.– PPPP as a social innovation in itself.– SMM, Small and Medium Municipalities
• 2. LL as an social “IP protocol”. interconnecting other innovation networks:
– Espacios Sociales de Innovacion (eVIA)– Centros de Conocimiento (SETSI)– Clusters industriales (Ministery of Industry)– Science and Technology Parks (Ministery of
Science)
2. The projects: new network services
Example1: Anella Cultural (Cultural Ring)
The project team:
In collaboration with
Ajuntament Barcelona
La Xarxa Transversal: a network of local cities interested in sharing culture
Example 2: Industrial Ring
BSC
Anella Audio-visualExample 3: Anella Audio-visual
Conclusions
• 1. The region a lab of the new user-driven innovation systems
• 2. The Lls as a social innovation and social IP layer.
• 3. Lls projects: new network services.• 4. New steps:
– Research group on Lls at ENoLL– 4th wave EnoLL meeting in Spain. To start
thematic meeting on eHealth LL. – March 26th, Centros de Conocimiento
national meeting at Citilab.