Living labs as quasi-experiments: results from the Flemish LeYLab

Living Labs are seen as open innovation systems adopting a user-centered approach (Schuurman et al., 2012), but academic research into the methodological elements is still lacking, resulting in a diversity of definitions, approaches and characteristics (Følstad, 2008; Almirall & Wareham, 2011; Leminen & Westerlund, 2012). Within this paper, based upon a literature review, we propose a conceptual model of a Living Lab constellation, facilitated by a given material and immaterial infrastructure, which facilitates Living Lab-cases that follow a quasi-experimental design. Through an in-dep... Mehr ...