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Managing innovative design within the health ecosystem: the Living Lab as an architect of the unknown

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  • Marine Agogué

    (CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Gérald Comtet
  • Pascal Le Masson

    (CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Jean-François Menudet
  • Robert Picard

Abstract

Designing new technological products or services for improving health care raises many challenges today, namely improving the innovative care process, bringing health actors to develop new value propositions and reconciling the logic of business and the logic of social economy around health. The health ecosystem is not the only sector in which such an issue emerges. Indeed, the question of the management of an industrial ecosystem arises today in many sectors seeking a renewal of their capabilities for innovation. In such situations, empirical and theoretical studies show the emergence of new actors--innovation intermediaries--who aim to influence the innovation process. Recently, scholars have enriched the description of the diversification of the role of such actors, showing how those actors can take a more active role within the innovation process. Our goal in this paper is to examine the role that Living Labs can play in the health ecosystem as architects of the unknown, i.e., innovation intermediaries acting to improve the innovation capabilities of other stakeholders. Building on both a description of the contemporary stakes of innovating in the health ecosystem and the literature on innovation intermediaries, we examine a case study in the Rhône-Alpes region in France in which we show how structures like Living Labs can act as architects to stimulate innovation and to help new concepts to emerge. This article therefore contributes to deepen the emerging stream of research that studies the concept of Living Labs and enriches our understanding of the activities that innovation intermediaries can undertake within the health ecosystem.

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  • Marine Agogué & Gérald Comtet & Pascal Le Masson & Jean-François Menudet & Robert Picard, 2013. "Managing innovative design within the health ecosystem: the Living Lab as an architect of the unknown," Post-Print hal-00972270, HAL.
  • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00972270
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    1. Mickaël Géraudel & Katherine Gundolf & Beate Cesinger & Julien Granata, 2019. "Der niedergelassene Arzt als Unternehmer: Die Rolle von Persönlichkeitsfaktoren im Zugang zu medizinischer Technologie," ZfKE – Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, vol. 67(3), pages 153-169.
    2. Ingrid Fasshauer, 2020. "Open Innovation Business Models : the example of living labs in France," Post-Print hal-03312263, HAL.
    3. Milena Klasing Chen & Patrice Aknin & Lilly-Rose Lagadec & Dominique Laousse & Pascal Le Masson & Benoit Weil, 2017. "Designing The Missing Link Between Science And Industry: Organizing Partnership Based On Dual Generativity," Post-Print hal-01619988, HAL.
    4. Katharina Greve & Riccardo De Vita & Seppo Leminen & Mika Westerlund, 2021. "Living Labs: From Niche to Mainstream Innovation Management," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(2), pages 1-25, January.

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