Gryszkiewicz, L;
Lykourentzou, I;
Toivonen, THI;
(2016)
Innovation Labs: Leveraging Openness for Radical Innovation?
Journal of Innovation Management
, 4
(4)
pp. 68-97.
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Abstract
A growing range of public, private and civic organisations, from Unicef through Nesta to NHS, now run units known as “innovation labs”. The hopeful assumption they share is that labs, by building on openness among other features, can generate promising solutions to grand challenges of systemic nature. Despite their seeming proliferation and popularisation, the underlying innovation principles embodied by labs have, however, received scant academic attention. This is a missed opportunity, because innovation labs appear to leverage openness for radical innovation in an unusual fashion. Indeed, in this exploratory paper we draw on original interview data and online self-descriptions to illustrate that, beyond convening “uncommon partners” across organisational boundaries, labs apply the principle of openness throughout the innovation process, including the experimentation and development phases. While the emergence of labs clearly forms part of a broader trend towards openness, we show how it transcends established conceptualisations of open innovation (Chesbrough et al., 2006), open science (David, 1998) or open government (Janssen et al., 2012).
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Innovation Labs: Leveraging Openness for Radical Innovation? |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | http://www.open-jim.org/article/view/175 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution License Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
Keywords: | Innovation labs, openness, open innovation, collaboration, open government, innovation hubs |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > STEaPP |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1546571 |
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