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Living Labs Europe - a new driver for European innovation
Living Labs Europe opens up the potentials of innovative mobile applications
and technologies to European citizens, companies, researchers and investors for the purpose
of pioneering mobile applications for European end-users and markets, enhance Attractiveness
for visitors, residents, business and to provide a European platform for collaboration and
opening innovative markets.
Across Europe, cities and regions gain comparative advantages by swiftly
advancing their infrastructure for transportation and telecommunications.
Cities that become nodes in cross-border networks attract business firms and
investors, tourists and other visitors. More and more, ‘hub cities’ are
becoming significant transaction points for global flows of goods, services,
people and – ideas. They gain advantage not only for themselves but for the
surrounding region and for other such coupled cities.
Throughout Europe, there are regions that tend to adapt more quickly and
effectively than others to new technology, organization and other circumstances
– from one generation to another.
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Infrastructures of all kinds are improved and
extended; public policies are up-dated to complement firm-specific assets;
clusters of competencies are maintained and advanced by applied research and
experimental development, education and training; cross-border linkages are
utilized to renew and enforce trade and international networks of production to
the benefit of the regional economy.
Currently, within the emerging knowledge-based economy, the most successful
European regions or city-areas seem to be those that operate as if they were
full-scale urban laboratories or regional proving grounds for prototyping and
testing new technology application and new methods of generating and fostering
innovation processes in real time.
These city-regions, and the firms located in them, seem to be actively riding
the wave of modern information and communications technologies rather
than simply adapting them. Here, professional and other user communities play a
significant role in identifying needs, shaping applications, and creating
effective interactions between the inventive producers and users of technology
for truly innovative uses.
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 Living Labs Folder.pdf
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