Living Labs

Carleton University continually works on making its research relevant to the wider community. The latest offshoot of that work is a concept called a living lab, which comes up with economic and social solutions for Eastern Ontario.

Entrepreneurship and innovation are the major focuses of Mika Westerlund and other researchers involved in living labs. Creating new industries is one way of stimulating community innovation, notes Westerlund, an assistant professor with the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton.

“I’m interested in open and user innovation, with living labs as the current focus,” says Westerlund.

Full article published in Carleton Research Works. Read more…