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Laurea Living Labs Network

Laurea Living Labs Network

 

Description of Concept

At Laurea we are helping companies, public sector, academia, and citizens to co-create and pilot better innovations in various industrial domains. Moreover, we provide professional knowhow and education in Health and Wellbeing, Social Services, Correctional Services, Safety, Security and Risk Management, Business Management and Service Innovation, Circular economy, Hospitality Management and Service Design, as well as Beauty and Cosmetics.

Helsinki-Uusimaa region, the most innovative region in Europe, and its cities and organization are our Living Labs. Our aim is to make innovation more open, inclusive, and collaborative. We are committed to following and promoting the responsible research and innovation principles (RRI).

 

Co-creation and experimentation does not happen without mediation. We call this mediation ‘orchestration’. It is our job to motivate businesses, researchers, public sector players and citizens to come together and innovate. Product development at the customer interface drastically reduces costs and time for launching. Collaboration with academia and businesses turns state-of-art research effectively into products and services. For citizens and public sector players, co-creation and innovation bring about better and more suitable services at reduced costs. Openness and free flow of information and ideas make processes more efficient and benefit all stakeholders. Adherence to open science, open innovation and open learning is Laurea’s competitive advantage.

At Laurea University of Applied Sciences, we are professionals in orchestrating and facilitating multi-stakeholder collaboration and innovation with nearly 30 years of experience. Laurea helps businesses, researchers, public sector players and citizens to develop, commercialize, and benefit from products and services through evidence-based advocacy, networks, agile pilots and experimentation, cross-border validation, and market development. ​

 

Laurea’s fields of expertise in RDI activities are holistic health and well-being, coherent security, service innovations and business models, entrepreneurship as well as pedagogy. We have around 80 research projects ongoing in the fields of our expertise. Read more from Research and Development – Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu

 

Contact:
Tuija Hirvikoski [javascript protected email address]
Country:
Finland
Address:
Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Ratatie 22, 01300 Vantaa, Finland
Adherent:
Yes
Laurea Living Labs Network

Methologies

Laurea Living labs take multidisciplinary approach because of the complexity of problems they aim to tackle. Development work is based on the iterative process utilizing different forms of knowledge to generate even radical innovations. Recent living lab projects involve the fields of service business, entrepreneurship, security management, social and health care, and urban development. They advance participatory approaches and methodologies, such as action research, service design, and various user-centered methods. Projects utilize updated knowledge derived from current research and previous projects.

 

Laurea living labs are based on the principle of open innovation and collaboration of different stakeholders sharing and integrating their ideas, knowledge and resources. Stakeholders usually have complementary interests and actor roles. Companies develop new products and services, whereas public organisations act as enablers allowing resources to enhance their goals and political agendas. Research organisations are responsible for knowledge augmentation and provide their expertise and innovation methods available to others. Users represent ordinary people, citizens and consumers who co-develop new products and services in their everyday lives.

 

 

Tools

CoCo Toolkit:

 

CoCo Tool Kit was developed within an extensive research project during the past 3 years funded by Tekes which is a national funding agency in Finland.

The development was implemented in co-creative way with business people, consultants, groups of business students, researchers and one of the very important collaborator was the university of Cambridge. CoCo Tool Kit contains five tools out of which four first ones are developed to analyze and to communicate the current state of mind and even more to understand the co-creation phenomenon. The fifth tool CoCo Cosmos is a visually powerful design tool to develop and to communicate a shared view of complex situations and to discover new innovation possibilities. As this tool kit has already empowered hundreds of people we would also like to invite you the wonderful world of co-creation to accelerate the growth in product and service innovation.

News

ENoLL Council member ICF Juror for more Intelligent Communities in the World

Tuija Hirvikoski, PhD, from Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Open Science Policy Platform Member and European Network of Living Lab’s […]

Finland has the potential to become the forerunner of health tech thanks to the Spinning Pilots project

The project is a great example of collaboration between ENoLL members – in this case Laurea and Spanish member GAIA […]

“Co-creating competitive business models and services for a physiotherapy company” course

Laurea was elected to organize a course “CO-CREATING COMPETITIVE BUSINESS MODELS AND SERVICES FOR A PHYSIOTHERAPY COMPANY” at World Confederation […]

City of Espoo wins Intelligent Community Award

One of the main shareholders of Laurea and the second-largest city in Finland, Espoo has won the international Intelligent Community Awards […]

Scientific publication ranks Principal Lecturer Seppo Leminen as the most cited author

The Technology Innovation Management Review ranked the most-cited articles and authors in its ten-year history.   ​Laurea Principal Lecturer, Doctor […]

The CityDrivers Forum: creative competence meets business

A seminar for the CityDrivers project was held in Tikkurila, Vantaa.   ​The aim of the CityDrivers project, coordinated by […]

Experts

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Tuija Hirvikoski

Laurea Director ENoLL President
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Dr Tuija Hirvikoski is currently a director at Laurea University of Applied Sciences responsible for the University’s strategic stakeholder management. During her Vice-Presidency, Laurea become Finland’s most successful University of Applied

Sciences receiving multiple awards. She has held managerial positions at various Finnish higher education institutions

and governmental institutions focusing on sustainable regional and societal

development. Hirvikoski’s specific area of expertise is related to multi-stakeholder, user-centred innovation design and ecosystem development (Living Labs).

She has received a PhD in Industrial Management (Innovation and Innovation Ecosystems), MSc in Education and MSc in Administration. As a sought-after advisor, she has provided various audiences with inspirational examples and research results concerning the Finnish education and open innovation ecosystems.

Hirvikoski is currently the President of The European Network of Living Labs and has served as a council member in various organisations such as the Uusimaa Regional Coordination Committee, Sendai-Finland Wellbeing Centre R&D Unit, Tech

villa Ltd (a Finnish technology centre), Helsinki Information Technology Association, the Talent Cultivation Program for Smart Living Industry in Taiwan, and the Centre for Skills and Post-Secondary Education (SPSE) in Canada.

Historically Labelled Living Labs

 

Since its formation in 2006 ENoLL has labelled 440+ Living Labs. See the full list of Labelled Living Labs who are not active members of the network.

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Imagining the Green Cities of the Future: Global Cases – Workshop

Thursday, 14 Mar 2024
Online
This is a role-play where each participant will embody a key figure in society. Together, we will collaboratively craft strategies aimed at fostering a sustainable future by envisioning the world in 2050. The focus lies on various cities worldwide, each poised for a green transition. Through dialogue and negotiation, the aim is to forge agreements that pave the way for necessary actions and initiatives.
      

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