Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Time:  3.30 pm – 4.50 pm

Language: English

Room:B1.032  E&G McNabb Theatre

Description:

This lab examines returns on experience and managerial practices to generate deeper collaboration, intensify co-creation, support start-ups and established companies to explore, develop, and accelerate their projects thanks to open labs (living labs, fab labs, coworking spaces, “third spaces”, etc.). Open labs are the beatbox to create a rhythm in ecosystems and make all stakeholders move forward, faster, together. The lab presents research results published in Merindol and Versailles, eds; (2023). This book proposes a framework to understand how open labs, innovation hubs, and collaborative spaces contribute to ecosystems. The book looks beyond the short-term effects of open labs and identifies four main dimensions: communities, physical spaces, events, and portfolios of services offered to private businesses, entrepreneurs, and start-ups, established companies, or public institutions. The lab will wrap up about managerial ways of working and discuss how “users” or “clients” evolve when benefitting from their services. To make an effective impact on innovation in ecosystems, open labs require an actual management elaborating on the dynamics of communities and on physical spaces, and shaping the co-evolution between open labs and their ecosystems. The lab is relevant for scholars and researchers in the fields of innovation studies and management science. It can also inform teaching, public policymaking, and professional practice.