%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2019 %T Applying a Living Lab Approach Within an eHealth Accelerator %A Lotta Haukipuro %A Satu Väinämö %A Leena Arhippainen %A Timo Ojala %K accelerator %K case study %K ehealth %K Living lab %K Open innovation %K SME %K startup %X Through this study, we seek to understand the impact of the use of the living lab approach on product and business development in an eHealth accelerator. In the case accelerator, 20 startups developed innovative products atop the European FIWARE Future Internet technology platform. The novel design element of the case accelerator was the use of the living lab approach that was included for the purpose of engaging end users in the development and testing of new product prototypes. Our main result is that the living lab approach provided added value to participating companies and resulted in changes in their product development and marketing strategies. Overall, the case accelerator and the use of the living lab approach had a significant impact on the development, growth, and market success of the companies. Based on the results of the case accelerator, we propose the generic accelerator model presented by Pauwels and co-authors in 2016 to be extended with a new design element, the living lab approach. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 9 %P 6-19 %8 03/2019 %G eng %U https://timreview.ca/article/1221 %N 3 %1 University of Oulu Lotta Haukipuro is a Coordinator of the project “Generation Z and Beyond: Co-Evolution of Human Capabilities and Intelligent Technologies in the 21st Century (GenZ)” in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oulu, Finland. She received her doctorate degree in 2019 from Oulu Business School. Her research has focused on user involvement through the living lab approach in different contexts. Since 2011, she has worked in several national and international RDI projects related to living labs and user involvement. %2 University of Oulu Satu Väinämö is a User Research Expert and Program Manager at the University of Oulu in Finland. She has comprehensive experience of leading international projects, managing and creating user interface designs, and defining innovation processes. Her career includes over 15 years in the ICT industry in several leadership and user-experience design positions. She has led more than 100 development activities within Oulu Urban Living Labs. She is currently in charge of establishing a Digital Health Knowledge Hub in Oulu. %3 University of Oulu Leena Arhippainen is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Teacher in the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, INTERACT Research Unit at the University of Oulu, Finland. Leena received her Master’s degree in the Department of Information Processing Science at University of Oulu in 2002 and her PhD degree in 2009. Her research interests include user experience, UX methods, human-computer interaction, 3D user interfaces and virtual environments, user involvement, and living labs. %4 University of Oulu Timo Ojala is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of the Center for Ubiquitous Computing at the University of Oulu, Finland. He obtained his doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oulu in 1997. His research activities have included living lab studies of ubiquitous computing and virtual reality systems in real-world urban settings. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1221 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2019 %T Digital User Involvement in a Multi-Context Living Lab Environment %A Lotta Haukipuro %A Satu Väinämö %K Digital user involvement %K living lab. %K user community %X This article provides new knowledge on the long-term use and value of a digital user involvement tool as a part of a living lab particularly in ICT, health and public service development contexts. Research has been carried out within the authentic living lab environment in 2011–2018. Empirical evidence is gathered from case living lab digital user involvement platform and activities conducted in multiple contexts. The primary source of information are the 70 in-depth interviews with the customer companies, public organizations and other stakeholders. The digital user community and user involvement tool-specific value for the development of products and services are a fast, easy and efficient user involvement regardless of time and location, tailored online methods based on the need of the customer, and the richness and quality of the end-user feedback. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 9 %P 27-37 %8 10/2019 %G eng %U https://timreview.ca/article/1273 %N 10 %1
University of Oulu
 
Lotta Haukipuro, D.Sc (Econ. & Bus. Adm.) coordinates the multidisciplinary Generation Z and beyond: Co-evolution of human capabilities and intelligent technologies in the 21st century (GenZ) project (2018-2022) at the University of Oulu. She received her Dr. degree in 2019 at Oulu Business School. Her research interests lie in the area of living labs, co-creation and user-centric development of products and services. She has worked in several national and international RDI projects.
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University of Oulu
 
Satu Väinämö, M. Sc. (Tech.), has comprehensive experience of leading international projects, creating user experience (UX) and service designs as well as defining and managing innovation processes.  Her career includes over 15 years in ICT industry in several leadership and UX design positions. Her tasks included e.g. creating smartphone UIs which were used in more than 500 million phones. Recently she coordinated 7,8 MEUR EU project, which accelerated European SMEs and startups to co-develop innovative application and businesses in eHealth market.  During the last seven years in University of Oulu she has led 100+ development activities within Oulun Urban Living Labs, where she oversaw innovation and living lab related projects. Currently, she is working at Centre for Health and Technology (CHT) at University of Oulu, where she is responsible of development of Digihealth Hub and its ecosystem collaboration.
%& 27 %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1273 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2018 %T Innovation Instruments to Co-Create Needs-Based Solutions in a Living Lab %A Lotta Haukipuro %A Satu Väinämö %A Pauliina Hyrkäs %K co-creation %K innovation instrument %K innovation process %K Living lab %K SME %K startup %K user involvement %X This multiple case study focuses on co-creation facilitated with innovation instruments in three different environments – a school, a hospital, and an airport – in which 12 SMEs and startups developed solutions based on predefined needs of customer organizations, and where stakeholders actively participated through user involvement methods facilitated by a living lab. The article provides new knowledge regarding the benefits of the co-creation, user involvement, and use of the living lab approach within different contexts. Our findings show concrete benefits of co-creation for stakeholders such as companies, customer organizations, and end users. Based on our results, we propose a new, generic model for using innovation instruments to facilitate co-creation for the development of needs-based products and services in different service domains. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 8 %P 22-35 %8 05/2018 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/1156 %N 5 %1 University of Oulu Lotta Haukipuro, MSc (Econ), is a doctoral candidate at the Oulu Business School at the University of Oulu in Finland. Her PhD research focuses on user involvement through living lab approach in different contexts. She has participated in several international and national innovation, research and development projects as a specialist of living lab and user involvement methods, and has administered a user community and user involvement tool since 2011. %2 University of Oulu Satu Väinämö, MSc (Tech), is a User Research Expert and Project Manager at the University of Oulu in Finland. She has comprehensive experience of leading international projects, managing and creating user interface designs, and defining innovation processes. Her career includes over 15 years in the ICT industry in several leadership and user-experience design positions. She has led more than 100 development activities within Oulu Urban Living Labs, where she is currently in charge of projects related to innovation and living labs. %3 Northern Ostrobothnia Hospital District Pauliina Hyrkäs, BHSc (Health Management), Northern Ostrobothnia Hospital District (NOHD), Finland, has worked in local, national, and international healthcare sector projects as a project manager, a coordinator, and a designer. With her project team, she developed nationally applicable innovation process for Finnish University Hospitals as well as the Development and Innovation Process for the NOHD. Currently, she is starting up the innovation activities at the Oulu University Hospital (OYS), designing the innovation process for the Future Hospital OYS 2030 and for the innovation ecosystem around the OYS as well as the healthcare co-creation process to be utilized at the European Union level. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1156