...Dr Pieter Ballon ,Mr Dimitri Schuurman; Annabel Georges; Dimitri Schuurman; Bastiaan Baccarne; Lynn Coorevits Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the factors playing a role in the engagement of end-users to participate in Living Lab field trials. Design/methodology/approach...

...Dr Pieter Ballon ,Mr Dimitri Schuurman; Yvonne Franz Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a more socially centred understanding of living labs for urban research questions by reflecting on current technologically centred and innovation-driven approaches. Design/methodology...

...Dr Pieter Ballon ,Mr Dimitri Schuurman; Dominic Lapointe; David Guimont Purpose – This paper aims to explore the role of private stakeholders in the living lab (LL) ecosystem and the relationship of private stakeholders to open innovation (OI) practices. There is extensive literature on private...

...Dr Pieter Ballon ,Mr Dimitri Schuurman; Rens Brankaert; Elke den Ouden; Aarnout Brombacher Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a Living Lab protocol to evaluate interventions for people with dementia in context. The number of people with dementia is continuously growing, resulting...

.... Originality/value – Policymakers can benefit from the insights on design support service development when designing new services for SMEs. Co-design processes that are elemental to the Living Lab approach could also benefit the development of public business-to-business (B2B) services. © Emerald Group...