After the first post about UrbanLabs, and the second one with the slideshow I presented there, I’m going to talk now about the methodology we adopted within the groups, and how they self-organized.

01. Methodology: Open Space Technology
We adopted the Open Space Technology:

Open Space Technology (OST) offers a method to run meetings of [...]

Tags: City, Design Methodology, Innovation, Spain

Here is a video of Charles Leadbeater on TED, about Pro-Ams (“innovative, committed and networked amateurs working to professional standards”) and Open Innovation.

The theme of the video is closely related to this book (that I found very useful while developing my thesis): “The Pro-Am Revolution. How enthusiasts are changing our economy and society written by [...]

Tags: Collaborative Networks, Innovation, Open Innovation, Pro-Am

After the first post, here I suggest you another report from Nordic Innovation Centre, a longer and more detailed one, edited by Emily Wise and Casper Høgenhaven: “User-Driven Innovation. Context and Cases in the Nordic Region“.

In this report, user-driven innovation is defined as the process of tapping users’ knowledge in order to develop new products, [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Co-Creation, Economy, Innovation, Northern Europe

After my first impressions, here is my slideshow I used on the first day of UrbanLabs. I was given the possibility to held a brief presentation before the participants in the group proposed some projects and then started to gather in order to talk about those projects.
We all were not sure about presentations, because we [...]

Tags: City, Community, Innovation, Open P2P Communities, Social Innovation, Spain

A week after UrbanLabs 08, I can finally write a post (the first of 3 posts) with my general impressions about it while I caught the flu!
It was an event that I’ve been waiting for since several months, and that by its nature it was very quickly between so many changes in language between [...]

Tags: City, Community, Innovation, Social Innovation, Spain, Technology

I’m sorry I have not written very much in the past two months but I’ve been busy with a new job and moving to another city…meanwhile, I’m working for a new version of the site, 1.1, to launch when I will publish my new little book that will summarize my thesis and one year of [...]

Tags: Innovation, Italy, Sharing, Technology

“User-driven innovation: when the user makes the difference”

The report is the result of an extensive pilot-project with an aim of clarifying the awareness and use of user-driven innovation in the Nordic countries.
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This report is written, during the spring of 2007, by a group of students from the Norwegian University of Science And Technology (NTNU) in [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Co-Creation, Economy, Innovation