Best practices Database for Living Labs - ALCOTRA - Innovation

scanned for the identification of the leading thematic orientation(s), based on the statements made by the
applicants themselves. No attempt was made to contact any Living Lab directly to clarify or integrate the
received and analyzed information.
Given the framework of the Alcotra Innovation project, within which this research was planned and done,
and particularly the four thematic domains of election for the participant Regions, our focus was set to the
Living Labs that have characterized themselves as belonging to one or more of these domains (as multiple
options were also available).
As the next diagram exhibits, 39% of Living Labs (or 107) were assessed to belong to the Creative Industries
and e-Learning sector, 29% (or 80 ENoLL Members) to the e-Health, AAL, Well Being and Sports sector,
13% (or 35 Living Labs) to the Intelligent Energy, Smart Grid and Sustainable Building sector, and 9% (or
26) to the Transport, Logistics and Automotive sector. On the other hand, 221 out of the 274 ENoLL
members (or 80%) also belonged to different – and quite often, additional, thematic domains, such as rural
or urban inclusion, manufacturing, mobile and broadband services etc.
Figure 18: Thematic orientation of ENoLL members (source: ENoLL database)
Not surprisingly, as the next two diagrams show, the above represented distribution is confirmed after
splitting up the current universe of ENoLL members into EU27 and non-EU Living Labs, with a particularly
good matching between the appearance of Figure 18 and the outlook of EU27 members, while the cluster
of Intelligent Energy, Smart Grid and Sustainable Building seems a little bit overrepresented in the non-EU
and international universe.
The project is co-funded by the ERDF
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