Literature Survey on how to cluster and define Living Labs, Real World Laboratories and similar research infrastructures

TL;DR

This survey reviews various research infrastructures like Living Labs and Real World Laboratories, focusing on their definitions, differentiation, and user integration methods to address societal challenges.

Contribution

It provides a systematic literature overview of research infrastructures and categorizes methods for user integration in Living Labs and similar environments.

Findings

Different types of research infrastructures are identified and differentiated.

Methods for user integration in Living Labs are systematically overviewed.

The paper highlights the role of co-creation in user-centric research.

Abstract

In today's world, where societal challenges in the areas of digitalization, demographic change and sustainability are becoming increasingly complex, new innovation structures are needed to meet these challenges. Living Labs or also Real World Laboratories prove to be such. Through their applied methods such as co-creation, they integrate users into research, making it more user-centric. Which other research infrastructures exist and how they can be differentiated is presented in this paper on the basis of a systematic literature research. Furthermore, methods for user integration are examined and provided in the form of an overview.