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New paradigms, such as Open Innovation (Chesbrough, 2003) and Web 2.0 (O’Reilly, 2004) as well as Living Labs operating as a User Centred Open Innovation Ecosystem (Pallot, 2009), promote a more proactive role of users in the R&D process. However, a number of existing methods for involving users are abundantly described in the literature, such as Lead User (Von Hippel, 2005), User Driv

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ECOSPACE newsletter double issue n°9 & 10 including latest project development on the Collaborative Environment Reference Architecture and Basic Collaborative Services as well as Shaping the Future of ENoLL and AMI Communities.

A Living Lab is a user-centred open innovation ecosystem integrating concurrent research and innovation processes within a business-citizens-government partnership.

It is intended to:

• Engage all stakeholders, especially user communities, at the earlier stage of Research and Innovation for discovering emerging scenarios, usages and behaviours;
• Bring together technology push and market

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The ECOSPACE project is making progress on the realisation of Interoperable Collaborative Working Environments (ICWE) as a promise about having a kind of mobile phone GSM standard communication protocol for collaborative tools that they could interact with each other in order to better serve the users.

The motivation is to have collaboration tools interacting with one another in a simple way as

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All papers on Collaborative Working Environments (CWE) are online and available for free within the ICE'2008 conference proceedings

Click on the following topics:

• Collaborative Systems
• Innovation and Living Labs

Whether you have an interest in Living Labs and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) artefacts exploration and experimentation then take a look at the following paper which has been presented at the CWE'08 event that took place during the ICE'2008 conference in Lisbon from 23 to 25 June 2008.

Here is the link to this paper which is reporting about an empirical study conducted through

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This is the first special issue of the ECOSPACE Newsletter which is dedicated to the topic of Living Lab. All Collaborative Working Environments (CWE) Integrated Projects (IP), namely Collaboration@Rural, CoSpaces, ECOSPACE, LABORANOVA and WearIT@Work projects are implementing a Living Lab approach in order to further explore, experiment and evaluate the concept of user-centred research and

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