Sustainable Impact and Systemic Change via Living Labs
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 November 2025 | Viewed by 1712
Special Issue Editors
Interests: living labs; open innovation; user innovation; innovation management
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Interests: multi-agent-based simulations for policy-making; bounded rationality approaches and modeling; low carbon energy and mobility national and local policies; living labs; smart cities and eco-neighbourhood; climate mitigation policies; climate negotiations
Interests: information systems; participatory design; living labs; innovation management; digital transformation
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Interests: open innovation management; living labs in context of health/wellbeing and circular economy; social network analysis (SNA)
Interests: artificial intelligence; intelligent systems; machine learning; medical informatics; statistics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
we invite you to submit contributions on the theme of Sustainable Impact and Systemic Change via Living Labs. This topic is linked to the upcoming Open Living Lab Days conference that is due to take place in Timisoara, Romania, from September 25th to 27th 2024, and selected papers will be invited to this Special Issue. However, we also welcome submissions not directly linked to the conference but within the scope of the following five topics, covering to themes and challenges that are closely related to living labs research and practice:
- Living Labs for Grand Societal Challenges (health and wellbeing, climate change, energy and transport, agriculture, natural resources, and so forth);
- Living Labs for Policies, Governance, Collaboration, and Innovation Ecosystems;
- Living Labs for Inclusive Soci(et)al Engagement;
- Living Labs for Business and Emerging Technology;
- Living Labs Operations, Methods, Tools, and Impacts.
We seek papers that investigate the role and outcomes of living labs within these themes and topics, and how they can contribute to the achievement of sustainable impact and generate systemic change in favor of a better future.
Dr. Dimitri Schuurman
Dr. Valentino Piana
Dr. Abdolrasoul Habibipour
Dr. Teemu Santonen
Dr. Sebastian Stefaniga
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- living labs
- sustainability
- grand societal challenges
- co-creation
- governance
- real-life experimentation
- quadruple helix
- innovation management
- impact
- innovation ecosystems
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