Living African laboratories
The Bizcommunity website reported that adopted globally as an experimental practice for contextual product development, the ‘living lab’ concept being implemented in Africa enables new ideas to be tested in an active, real-world, real-time environment. The findings can lead to open innovation in the context of cities and can result in ground-breaking ideas, products and systems. But the key to the system is the user-adoption built into the model. Living labs enable the user community to co-create solutions, in an integrated process of managed experimentation, in which users are observed participants but also the creators of the end product.
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