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Challenges of Urban Living Labs towards the Future of Local Innovation (AMS Institute)

By Ellen van Bueren and corresponding author Aksel Ersoy

Based on a comparative case study of three innovation projects in a Living Lab in the city of Amsterdam, the claims of Living Labs regarding innovation and the different orders of learning they foster are analysed and discussed in this article. In this article it is argued that the processes of experimentation within Living Labs combining mechanisms of learning and innovation is key to promoting the development of particular local solutions.However, since the learning processes are especially concerned within a particular Living Lab learning setting, there is a mismatch between the expectations of policymakers, industry, citizens, and knowledge institutes, as well as how the lessons learned can be useful for other contexts.

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