Open Labs and Innovation Management The Dynamics of Communities and Ecosystems

Introduction PART 1 A taxonomy of open labs and their business models 1. Appraising the diversity of open labs with a taxonomy 2. The business model of open labs: Sustainability at the intersection between scale and community life cycles PART 2 Open labs as innovation intermediaries 3. Art, entrepreneurs, and open labs: New challenges to foster open innovation 4. Living labs: New players in the dynamics of healthcare ecosystems of innovation 5. From spatiality to temporality: Turbocharging innovation ecosystems with events: the case of Hacking Health 6. Communitech in Waterloo, Canada: How open lab organisations can drive a successful entrepreneurial ecosystem 7. Building communities in rural coworking spaces PART 3 Open labs at the origin of new governance models for innovation 8. Cracking the nut from the inside: Innovating from the ground up in highly constrained systems 9. Living labs and innovation commons in healthcare ecosystems: The case of the TransMedTech Institute in Montréal 10. Open Labs in the transition from Triple to Quadruple Helix: Insights from smart cities and healthcare innovation ecosystems Afterword

Biography

Valérie Mérindol is Professor at the Paris School of Business. She teaches the management of creativity and innovation and also knowledge management.

David W. Versailles is Professor at the Paris School of Business, lecturing in strategic management, innovation studies, and business modelling. David is also founding partner and CEO in ISK Consulting SA (Luxembourg), and a visiting professor at Luxembourg School of Business.

Together, Valérie and David co-head the PSB New Practices for Innovation and Creativity (newPIC) chair, which specialises in the investigation of the micro-foundations of innovation and creativity.

"Open Labs"(i.e., incubators, makerspaces, fab labs, etc.) have become a major phenomenon of interest in innovation studies, reflecting that they have become massively prevalent over the last decade and a half. However, little is still known about them in terms of the motives and backgrounds of their members, their dynamics and their need for management. Valèrie Mérindol and David Versailles have collected a strong set of papers on open labs that is certain to become a reference in this emerging research space for years to come."

Professor Nicolai J. Foss, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

 

 "In this book, reference researchers provide a rigorous, in-depth study of the open lab phenomena. Combining rich empirical material and solid analytical framework integrating multiple dimensions of management science, they show that the promises of open labs will only be fulfilled by relying on rigorous management of the innovation processes and the variety of innovation capacities."

Pascal Le Masson, MINES ParisTech, PSL, France

 

"Open Labs and Innovation Management edited by Valérie Mérindol and David W. Versailles truly hits a sweet spot. By addressing the crucial role of labs as boundary spaces in a carefully selected series of chapters, this book opens new perspectives for the future of innovation management."

Prof. Dr. Kathrin Moeslein, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, Former President (2020-2022), European Academy of Management (EURAM)

 

"In their seminal book on open labs, Valèrie Mérindol, David Versailles, and their colleagues explore the different facets of collaborative innovation, from living labs to fab labs, including the various incubators and their variations. As ecosystem-based innovation becomes increasingly the norm, this important book paves the way for developing best practices for orchestrating such ecosystems."

Catherine Beaudry, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

"Open Labs and Innovation Management is a must-read for scholars of innovation management as well as for business and policy leaders who seek organizational and management initiatives that can boost the development of the innovation capacity of local communities. In a business world where the only certainty is the acceleration of change and the need for continuous innovation, it is crucial to understand the strategic and operative role the Open Labs can play as knowledge catalysts contributing to the dynamics of innovation ecosystems. Valérie Mérindol and David W. Versailles edited a comprehensive understanding of the structural dimensions and managerial features distinguishing the development of flexible innovation platforms adapting to and supporting the innovative needs of communities and ecosystems. A timely work on an important subject."

Professor Giovanni Schiuma, LUM University and Tampere University