Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Time: 3.30 pm – 4.50 pm
Language: English
Room: TBS Room 231
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.
Presenters
Valérie Mérindol is currently a full professor in Innovation and Creativity Management at Paris School of Business (PSB) where she co-heads the “new Practices for Innovation and Creativity” (newPIC) chair. Valérie holds a PhD in political science from the University of Strasbourg and the Habilitation to supervise research in management (University of Strasbourg). She is also a founding partner in ISK Consulting SA (Luxembourg) and contributes to missions in relation to her research interests: management of innovation and creativity, innovation and science policymaking, governance issues, knowledge management, and management of creativity.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/valeriemerindol/
David W. Versailles is currently a full professor of Strategic Management at Paris School of Business where he co-heads the “new Practices for Innovation and Creativity” (newPIC) chair with Valérie Mérindol, and a visiting full professor at Luxembourg School of Business. David holds a Doctorate and the Habilitation to supervise research in economics (at University Aix Marseille 3 and University of Nice respectively). David is also the chair of the Strategic Interest Group (SIG) on Innovation for the European Academy of Management (EURAM) for the 2022–2025 term. David is also the founder and managing director of the consulting firm ISK Consulting SA in Luxembourg. David’s research elaborates on the combination of economics, strategic management (including business modelling), innovation management, and strategic management of knowledge.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/versailles/
