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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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New paradigms such as Open Innovation (Chesbrough, 2003) and User Centred Design (Von Hippel, 2005) as well as User Centred Open Innovation Ecosystem (Pallot, 2009a) promote a distributed collaboration approach. However, a number of identified distances (Pallot, 2010a), abundantly described in the literature, raise collaboration barriers which affect the effectiveness and efficiency

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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.

Take a look at the 4 short videos about Collaborative Working Environments produced by the ECOSPACE project:

1. Introducing the ECOSPACE Vision 
2. Presenting Trends & Paradigms related to Collaboration
3. Showing Concepts & Tools supporting  Collaborative Environments
4. Overviewing Architecture and Interoperable Collaborative Services

 

 

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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Following the first special issue of the ECOSPACE Newsletter which was dedicated to the topic of Living Lab, here is the second special issue dedicated to the topic of interoperability within Collaborative Environments. ECOSPACE project is very active in the Open Collaborative Architecture Working Group (OCA WG) where other Collaborative Environments Integrated Projects (IP)are also involved, such ...more