Future Research Avenue for Living Labs and Collaborative Innovation [Special Issue on Living Labs and Collaborative Innovation]

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Published: Jun 26, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24840/2183-0606_013.001_L002
Issue: Vol. 13 No. 1 (2025)
Keywords:
living lab, collaborative innovation, research avenue, contextualization, holization, revitalization, reformation

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Dr. Seppo Leminen
School of Business & Economics, Åbo Akademi University, Tuomiokirkontori 3, 20500 Turku, Finland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2918-0020
Dr. Mika Westerlund
Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, 5029 Nicol, 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0469-0438

Abstract

In this letter from Academia, we aim to identify emerging research directions in the field of living labs and collaborative innovation. This paper reviews existing literature on living labs and highlights recent articles on living labs as collaborative innovation published in the special issue of the Journal of Innovation. Our goal is to stimulate further research to deepen the understanding of living labs and collaborative innovation by addressing four types of living lab studies: contextualization, holization, revitalization, and reformation. We propose four research questions for each of these research avenues. We encourage future studies to focus on the challenges and opportunities inspired by suggested research avenues and research questions within the field of living labs.


 


 

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Author Biographies

Dr. Seppo Leminen, School of Business & Economics, Åbo Akademi University, Tuomiokirkontori 3, 20500 Turku, Finland

Seppo Leminen is an Affiliated researcher at Åbo Akademi University and Adjunct Professor of Business Development at Aalto University in Finland. He has been Drammen City Municipality chaired (Full) Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the USN School of Business at the University of South- Eastern Norway in Norway and an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University in Canada. He holds a doctoral degree in Marketing from the Hanken School of Economics and a doctoral degree in Industrial Engineering and Management in the School of Science at Aalto University. He is an Area Editor in Techovation. His current research topics includes living labs, digital business models and ecosystems, ecosystem strategy, collaborative models of innovations, as well as management and marketing models for different types of companies. Results from his research have been reported in the Technovation, the Industrial Marketing Management, the Technological Forecasting& Social Change, the Journal of Cleaner Production, the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, the Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Management Decision, the Journal of Innovation and the International Journal of Innovation Management, among many others.

Dr. Mika Westerlund, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, 5029 Nicol, 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada

Dr. Mika Westerlund (D.Sc.) is an Associate Professor at the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University. He teaches master’s-level courses on technology innovation, entrepreneurship, and machine learning. Mika is an innovation researcher specializing in emerging technologies, practices, and phenomena that may have significant social, economic, ecological, or other implications for present and future societies. His research employs mixed methods, incorporating a range of qualitative, quantitative, and automated research techniques.