Innovating in the Open Lab

The new potential for interactive value creation across organizational boundaries

Albrecht Fritzsche, Julia M. Jonas, Angela Roth, Kathrin M. Möslein, Albrecht Fritzsche, Julia M. Jonas, Angela Roth, Kathrin M. Möslein

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9783110633665
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

Open labs provide spaces for interaction across organizational boundaries. They create a huge potential to advance innovation processes. Making use of this potential, however, is not an easy task. It requires diligence, sophistication and perseverance from everyone involved in the implementation and the management of the lab.

This book brings together contributions from leading experts in engineering, design, strategy, foresight and marketing research as well as policy makers and practitioners from an open lab. It explores from different perspectives how open labs can be used to facilitate innovation and what needs to be done to make the operation of an open lab successful. The topics addressed in the book include: interaction patterns and mediation in open labs, innovation technology, resource management, ecosystem and platform design, cultural translation, productivity, multi-channel communication, and more.

The first part of the book is dedicated to the study of JOSEPHS ®, an open lab in Germany. It gives insight in the practical challenges of running an open lab and its role in the local business ecosystem. The other parts of the book discuss the phenomenon of open labs in general and its significance in different contexts all around the world.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Contents
• Part I: Open Labs and Innovation Strategies
• 1 Piloting in Open Innovation Labs – A Challenge for Local Ecosystems
• 2 The First 100 Days of JOSEPHS^® – The Open Innovation Lab in Nuremberg
• 3 Where City Innovation Comes Alive – The JOSEPHS^® Innovation Lab in Nuremberg
• 4 JOSEPHS^® as an Anchor Point for the Development of Smart Products and Services in an Increasingly Digitized World
• 5 Open Lab Functionalities in Offline-Retail – A Step Towards Future Retail?
• Part II: Managing Innovation in Open Labs
• 6 The Many Facets of Open Laboratories and Their Implications for Innovation Management
• 7 Unlocking Unique Value Through Co-Creation in Open Laboratories
• 8 Working in the Open Lab – Mediation, Trading and Translation
• 9 Professional Leadership as Key to Innovation Projects in Open Laboratories
• 10 Driven by the Same Spirit – Entrepreneurship, Incubation and Open Labs in the Business Ecosystem of Central Franconia
• Part III: Co-creating Value with Open Labs
• 11 Co-creating Value with Open Labs
• 12 The Role of Engagement Platforms in Innovation Ecosystems
• 13 B2B Vertical Collaboration and Open Innovation – The Case of 5G in Finland
• 14 An Innovation Network for Collaborative Engineering of Smart Service Systems – The LESSIE Approach
• 15 Driving Service Productivity of Open Innovation Labs
• Part IV: Open Labs as Innovation Spaces
• 16 Understanding Open Labs – The Challenge of Place and Space
• 17 Creating the Creative Open Lab
• 18 Open Laboratories as “In-between Spaces”
• 19 Navigating in the Vastness – Making Sense of the Dynamics of Consumer Choices
• 20 Innovating in the Open lab – Archetypes of OI Strategies and Capabilities
• Part V: New Frontiers for Open Labs
• 21 Open Labs as Islands of Reason in the Digital Age
• 22 A Virtual Laboratory for Open Innovation in Space Exploration: The NASA Tournament Lab
• 23 From Open Labs to DiY Labs – Harnessing ‘the wisdom of crowds’ for Innovation
• 24 Tapping into Cultural Richness – Open Labs in Nubia
• 25 Facilitating Participatory Design in the Cyber-Physical Lab
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Contributors
• Index