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User-driven open innovation:
It is an efficient way to deal with market fragmentation and obstacles. Related methodologies, such as Living Labs, have made the innovation process more efficient by bridging the gap between R & D and market entrance, supporting better and faster take-up of R & D results. These methodologies are rapidly becoming the new mainstream method of innovating as they are expected to enable small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to create lead markets by overcoming existing barriers on various local and regional markets in Europe.
Through partnerships between citizens, businesses and public authorities, the Living Labs model allows people and industries to test tomorrow's best innovations in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).
Living Labs:
Open innovation ecosystems in real-life settings in which user-driven innovation is fully integrated in the co-creative process of new services, products and societal infrastructures.
The Living Labs model includes end-user participation from an early stage of the creative process of technology development. As a result, evaluating aspects such as social and economic implications of new technologies has become more accurate. So the needs of users are better listened to and fulfilled.
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