Open Labs and Innovation Management: The Dynamics of Communities and Ecosystems [Paperback]

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).

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

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 unl“4