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IBBT iLab.o

Open Innovation Lab

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Main driver of value on Internet: User-driven Innovation User no longer problem, but solution: creates value

=> involve users in innovation process

Why Living Labs?

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15 Years of Living Labs

In-house real-life labs MIT Labs, Philips HomeLab

City labs Helsinki Virtual Village, i-City Hasselt

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Technologies are not consumed,

but domesticated by users.

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Living Labs as Open Innovation Platforms

Living Lab as open innovation platform Real-life experimental introduction of new services and products Local and Trusted environment Critical Mass of users Public-Private-People Partnership

Ballon, Pierson & Delaere, 2005

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The Trouble with Users

Who are they?

How will they use your product?

How (high) do they value your product?

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IBBT organization

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From idea to business

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Create world-class facilities

Develop and maintain worldwide leading experimental ICT and Internet technical and user research facilities that strengthen the position of the Flemish industry within a global market and that will contribute to a sustainable smart society.

What do we offer?

User selection and management New methods for usage logging

and monitoring Application co-design Strategy & policy tools

What are the results?

User & Social requirements Market Potential & Business

models Co-designed and Validated

products/services

The iLab.o offering

Need

finding

• From need• To concept

Shaping

• From concept• To prototype

Business Modellin

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• From prototype• To business model

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Living Labs

A toolbox for any project type: ICON, Living Lab, CIP, FP7, …

Panel Management

We’ll find and motivate your test-users

Living Lab Methodology

We’ll show you how to set up a living lab project

Prototyping & testing

We’ll model a rough idea into a usable app for daily life and test it through

Simulate Your Business

Draw, discuss and simulate your value chain and business model on the fly

European Network of Living Labs

iLab.o hosts the Brussels Office for ENoLL

A toolbox for any project type: ICON, Living Lab, CIP, FP7, …

The EU Living Lab Framework

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ENoLL iVZW as a partner repository

Current Flagship Projects

Providing SMEs access to the European Market Space through cross-border networks of Living Labs

Using IBM’s cloud infrastructure to implement mash-ups of e-Gov and business city services

Combining city data with the ideas of citizens in creating new applications

Crossmedia innovation lab.

Flemish Fibre-to-the Home Living Lab testing ultra-broadband services in Kortrijk.

Focusing on Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Smart Media, throughout Flanders.

Selected as First Wave ENoLL member (2006) Founding member of ENoLL association (2010) Hosting the ENoLL secretariat in Brussels Elected as International Secretary Developing and hosting the new ENoLL websites and newsletter 4 Partner Living Labs in 5th Wave (2011)

Flanders going abroad

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http://linkedin.com/koen.de.vos

http://twitter.com/ilabo

http://facebook.com/

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www.ibbt.be

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IBBT iLab.o

Open Innovation Lab