Living Labs and Collaborative Innovation [Guest Editorial - Special Issue on Living Labs and Collaborative Innovation]
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It is our pleasure to introduce you to this special issue in the Journal of Innovation Management (JIM) on the topic of Living Labs and Collaborative Innovation. Since their ``big bang'' with the establishment of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) in 2006, living labs have been established worldwide to tackle an increasingly diverse variety of complex challenges such as urbanisation, agricultural sustainability and resilience, inequality, emerging technologies, etc. However, this surge in attention has been mainly driven by practice and policy, with the academic foundations lagging somewhat behind. With this special issue, we want to present you with an actual overview of current developments and achievements in living labs. Despite the wide variety of topics and domains in which they are being used and set-up, collaborative innovation is one of the main cornerstones of living lab practices. Therefore, there is a natural fit with the topic of Living Labs and Collaborative Innovation and the JIM, as it is an open access, multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, intending to publish cutting-edge research and findings on innovation and its management, bridging the gap between scientific research, policy making, and practice. (...)
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