Open Innovation in urban development - Setting up of a Living Lab to accelerate innovations for urban transport and mobility

The research team is currently working on defining a suitable path towards the design and implementation of a Living Lab for developing, testing and demonstrating innovations in urban mobility. A Living lab is a real-life test and experimentation environment where users and producers co-create innovations, often operating in a territorial context (e.g. city, region) (Veeckman et al. 2013). There are several examples which focus on transport and mobility either addressing individual or freight transport. The combination of both topics is seen as a unique chance to find new ways for a sustainable transport system and mobility behavior. The region of Upper Austria is used as research case in order to demonstrate results and findings of an applied research project, called "Mobility Lab Upper Austria".