How living labs can achieve long-term livability through business models and funding opportunities
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2023-05-12
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Living labs are a well-known but little-understood idea. Over the last decades, more Living Labs have been established for creating innovation and solving challenging problems of the modern world. The core of the Living Labs is that they use user-centered approaches considering the different actors' opinions, making way for more collaborative and participatory methods. An ambitious project called Soil Mission uses Living Labs and Lighthouses as its primary method for leading the transition toward healthier soils in Europe. This research will focus only on Living Labs. Even though Living Labs have created a prosperous environment for Research& Innovation, most of the time fail to stay alive for a more extended period than only one project. Two central problems have been identified after research: the lack of successful business models and funding. Little research has been done to identify the reasons behind these two problems. This study will mainly focus on exploring the two challenges in depth and propose ways of dealing with them so the Soil Mission’s Living Labs can achieve long-term livability. A qualitative approach will be used, and through interviews and analyzing case studies the researcher is expected to gain more insight into this topic and answer the research questions. In the end, recommendations will be given based on the data that will arise.
Key Words: Soil Mission, Living Labs, Business Model, Funding
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen