Living Labs Workshop: from idea to sustainable businesses

The workshop will focus on the creation and redesign of test environments for technological, social and regulatory innovations linked to the ecological transition.

We are at a turning point for the ecological transition: the effective decarbonization of the economy requires now, much more than before, a greater drive for the conjunction between technological, social and regulatory innovation, and a better use of open innovation.

The transition must be a fair process in all industrial sectors and focused on protecting the interests of consumers. In this sense, Living Labs play a fundamental role in the green transition as they are end-user focused testing environments for innovation, where different stakeholders can assume a crucial role in getting innovations to have an effective entry and acceptance in the market.

The workshop is part of the European project Transnet, an initiative funded by the Interreg-Sudoe program that aims to contribute to the energy transition by defining a new model of university 'living lab', i.e. a real test bed for open innovation, which is transferable to companies.