Pisa Living Lab - Leaning Lab The Leaning Lab is a free association of creative people, founded in Pisa in 2007 to bring innovation from laboratories into everyone's and everyday life. Our goal is to help citizens change their life and society rather than products, and assume a creative and active attitude towards the challenges of a constantly evolving world. The Leaning Lab is the place of aggregation where talented people coming from different backgrounds (University of Pisa, CNR, Sant'Anna, Scuola Normale Superiore and many
Living Piemonte is the rising network of Regione Piemonte aiming at sustaining the transfer of research and development results into new products and services which could be appealing for the markets. The creation of this network is going to be one of the most important instruments for the regional innovation strategy in the following years: the potentials of broadband technology will be exploited at their best thanks to the intersection with innovation
Lunigiana Amica is a non-profit association that is currently joining 127 small and micro businesses active in the rural district of Lunigiana, Tuscany, Italy, mainly from agro-industry and agro-tourism. Its current partners are the only members of Lunigiana Amica’s General Assembly and Management Board; local public administrations support the association financially with voluntary contributions.
The C.LAB - Thematic Laboratories for the innovation community of Piedmont - will promote and diffuse the ICT technologies in the entrepreneurial system of small and medium companies with respect to products, services and processes. They aim at empowering the productive capabilities of the territorial system by supporting all its active actors. The C.LAB’s development program is based on structured and permanent relationships among the Public Administrations, the Universities and the Research Organizations, and the system of enterprises.
Trentino as a Lab (TasLab) is a cooperation cluster whose goal is to develop user-centric innovation and which involves all the three main innovation actors, namely research centers, enterprises and users. The research centers involved are:
TLL Sicily is the first instance of a concept we have called “Territorial Living Lab”, that integrally applies the LL approach to a territory and its citizens, its model of governance and its strategic plans for the future: in essence, it can be conceived of as a new model for regional development.
The Textile and Apparel sector needs to profoundly innovate its approach to R&D. Innovation in textile should open up to such quality factors as knowledge providers, successful entrepreneurs, creative designers and stylists, economic and institutional stakeholders and - last but not least - users or consumers. The T&A sector must improve its decaying image by promoting a dynamic and creative industry and encouraging
The 5th Ministerial Declaration on eGovernment - approved unanimously in Malmö, Sweden, on 18th November 2009 – invites the EU Member States to “actively seek collaboration with third parties, for example businesses, civil society or individual citizens, in order to develop user-driven eGovernment services”. As a matter of fact, the current levels of take-up of eGovernment services in Europe remain extremely low and this hampers the progress towards efficiency and customer focus of public administration.
The Torre Guaceto LL has been started in 2007 in order to develop a MEMORY system to support participatory practice in the Natural Reserve of Torre Guaceto, a wet-land in Puglia, a Eastern region in southern Italy. The TG_LL can be described as a territorial LL and is technologically characterized by the development and use of a Memory Support System (MEMENTO) assisting the process of spatial governance in the Natural Reserve.
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The eToscana initiative is an integrated eGovernance strategy deriving from the Regional Government’s official plan for the establishment of an Information Society in Tuscany that was launched in 2003 and is supported by Regional Law No. 1/2004. It has mobilised, networked and is currently serving:
• All Municipalities and public sector authorities/agencies of the region and particularly about 90.000 public employees
• About 32.000 citizens (out of a 3,6 million population)
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X-LAB is a laboratory, situated in Bologna, in the northern Italy, dedicated to the technologies for interoperability and enterprise networking and to their transfer and adoption towards networks of enterprises (mainly manufacturing in textile-clothing, tiles, agrofood and mechanical industry) with a specific focus on standards and on small and middle enterprises (SMEs).
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The Frascati Living Lab is taking advantage of the local regional, ESA-ESRIN and EC committed funding in developing applications and innovation actions to experiment a dynamic collaborative platform to support the development in real life scenarios and experimentation of: − Innovative applications involving incubation processes, such as those promoted in the ESA - BIC Lazio incubation initiative − More traditional applications in sectors such as environment, agriculture and tourism.