Living Lab New Collaborative Methods in Innovation Karel Charvat, Pavel Gnip BOSC, WirelessInfo,CCSS Maris Alberts, Inga Berzina TDF

Who we are? Group of cooperating organisations from Latvia and Czech. Our effort is independent on public bodies, but we cooperate with public bodies IMCS TDF BOSC CCSS WirelessInfo

Main idea On the base of principles of Living Lab ideas establish cooperation supporting innovation in Latvia Cooperating with other organizations Zemgale Planning Region Hyppo Bank …..

Main idea To use concept of Living Lab to improve competitiveness and also life in Latvian and Czech regions We see possibility for cooperation and both directional transfer of experiences between Latvia and Czech

What is Living Lab? “Co-creation environment for human-centric research and innovation„ (Mikael Borjeson - CORELABS) “Living Labs is a research methodology for sensing, prototyping, validating and refining complex solutions in multiple and evolving real life contexts.” (William Mitchell) "Experience and application research involves research, development and design by, with and for users. A novel aspect of Experience and Application Research is that it involves users in all stages of R&D and all stages of the product development lifecycle, not just at the end phases as, for example, in more classical field trials or user testing of products.“ (ISTAG Working Group on Experience and Application Research)

Living Labs collaboration advantages Sources (human, financial, data sources) should be shared more effectively Information should be available easily for everybody User requirements could be defined by wider audience Knowledge sharing and dissemination

Benefits for Regions LL activities contribute to the availability of public information by regularly up-dating, expanding and enlarging information bases and data sources. LL enables flexible working environments. (Use of internet resources i.e. , video conferencing etc). Therefore highly qualified people (Who maybe restricted by time, family and travel problems) can work flexible hours within a home or non-fixed office environment. The technologies developed in CLL are compatible with INSPIRE principles. Implementation of these technologies enables the user to receive information in a more agreeable way.

Collaboration with other LLs Development of the new tools and services –Cooperation on development Implementation of technologies in LLs –Joining to current infrastructure through open interface –Re-implementation of LL solution for other LLs conditions Knowledge dissemination –Learning about LL processes, advantages and problems

Living Lab YES –An environment, a room, an area … –To provide,to support, to make possible, to set conditions for … collaboration NOT –Company –Strict rules –One way road

AB Rules of benefit LL represents normal economical relation among different subjects  economical behavior A – Profit of the partner “1” B – Profit of the partner “2” C – Collaboration lose of “1” D – Collaboration profit of “1” E – Collaboration lose of “2” F – Collaboration profit of the “2” Final profit “1” = A – C + D Final profit “2” = B – E + F If D > C along with F > E  successful collaboration CE D F Collaboration

Models of LL Building The Innovation process triangle –Product - object of business of one or more members inside or outside of the LL which is developed and innovated during the entire life of LL –Project - includes all innovative processes improving products quality –Business - commercialization of product (not necessary only B2B or B2C, but it could be also B2G Project Product Business

Rural Inclusion Partners –TDF –BOSC

Rural Inclusion Rural Inclusion aims at adopting a state-of-art infrastructure (i.e. modelling approach and software environment) that will facilitate the offering of innovative services by public administration in rural areas. More specifically, the objective is to address a longstanding challenge by public administrations: reducing the administrative burden of enterprises in rural areas, by reducing the information elicitation process of businesses when they want to use a particular instance of some public service, or making more effective use of the resources.

Rural Inclusion To analyze the administrative burdens that SMEs in rural areas are currently facing and identify public services that could be provided through e-Government. To deploy a number of innovative e-Government services that will complement the provision of the selected public services and will facilitate the interaction between the rural SMEs and the regional authorities though semantic disambiguation of needs and requirements. To adopt and implement an innovative approach for the training of both staff of the regional public agencies and SME communities on the use of the deployed e-Government services, aiming at a cultural change towards the use of online public services

Rural Inclusion Cooperation with Zemgale Planning Region and with there running project Plan4all to establish system improving access to Spatial Planning documentation in Zemgale region.

NaturNet plus IMCS Vidas projecti

NaturNet plus Training for sustainable development in region Farming Tourism Nature protection Planning Public participation on decision

NaturNet plus Using advanced toools for training Web information Video conferencing

Thank You for Attention Karel Charvat