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Keywords: living labs, innovation, methodology, framework, analysis, definition, constructs, ISPIM, ENoLL, lean startup, cultural space, library, stakeholder
From the Editor-in-Chief
Welcome to the December 2018 issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This month's editorial theme is Living Labs, and it is my pleasure to introduce our guest editors, who have been regular contributors to the journal on this topic: Seppo Leminen (Pellervo Economic Research and Aalto University, Finland, as well as Carleton University, Canada), Dimitri Schuurman (imec, Belgium), Mika Westerlund (Carleton University, Canada), and Eelko Huizingh (University of Groningen, The Netherlands).
Most of the articles in this issue were selected and developed from papers presented at the ISPIM Innovation Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, from June 17-20, 2018. ISPIM (ispim-innovation.com) - the International Society for Professional Innovation Management - is a network of researchers, industrialists, consultants, and public bodies who share an interest in innovation management.
In our January issue, we start the new year by focusing on the theme of Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship with guest editors Ferran Giones from the University of Southern Denmark and Dev K. Dutta from the University of New Hampshire in the United States.
For future issues, we welcome your submissions of articles on technology entrepreneurship, innovation management, and other topics relevant to launching and growing technology companies and solving practical problems in emerging domains. Please contact us (timreview.ca/contact) with potential article topics and submissions.
Chris McPhee
Editor-in-Chief
From the Guest Editors
Beginning in 2012 with the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) Conference in Barcelona, a Special Interest Group (SIG; ispiminnovation.com/groups-projects) on living labs has held a yearly invited speaker session, a dedicated paper track, and other activities such as thematic workshops. In 2018, the ISPIM conference took place in Stockholm, one of the central cities of the Nordic countries, which are regarded as the cradle of the living labs movement. Therefore, in this setting, it was natural for ISPIM's Living Lab SIG to team up with the Technology Innovation Management Review for a special issue on the theme of Living Labs with selected papers from the ISPIM 2018 conference.
Living labs are physical regions or virtual realities where stakeholders from public-private-people partnerships (4Ps) of firms, public agencies, universities, institutes, and users meet. All are collaborating...