5th Workshop on the LivingLabs
in the Innovative Cross-border eRegion

Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor
Kidriceva cesta 55a, 4000 Kranj, Slovenia
Thursday, November 13, 2008, 8:30 – 17.00
http://eCenter.FOV.Uni-Mb.si/eLivingLabWorkshop

 

About the Workshop

A Living Lab is an environment in which researchers, developers and users cooperate with the common objective of delivering a tested product, solution or service respecting the users’ requirements and in a shortest time possible. The environment may be a city, a region within a country, an industry, a supply chain or a whole country.

In Living Labs, people exploit opportunities provided by ICT to connect themselves. The cooperation of companies, government organizations, universities and other research institutions in an accelerated implementation of ICT-powered solutions and services may be considered a big, broadly conceptualized laboratory. Since numerous individuals are involved in co-creation (user-driven innovation), such a laboratory is known as a Living Lab.

In the Workshop possible contributions of the Living Labs to innovativeness will be discussed. Current activities and development plans of some Living Labs in Europe will be presented. Opportunities provided by the European Network of Living Labs – ENoLL will be elaborated. Challenges for the Living Labs development in Central Europe will be discussed by the deans as the university executives. Possible areas of the joint cross-border projects and actions will be suggested.

English is the working language of the event.

Registration

Program

8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Refreshment

9:00 – 10:30 Opening Panel
Slovenia Initiative Innovation for Life Quality - Slovenia Living Lab: What Next
Co-chairs:
Slovenia Initiative Innovation for Life Quality – Slovenia Living Lab: What Next?
Dr. Jože Gričar, Professor & eCenter Director
Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Contact person, eLiving Lab
Member, Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group – OISPG
Dr. Bror Salmelin, Adviser to the Director
European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General,
Directorate H: ICT addressing Societal Challenges
& European Commission Coordinator, Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group – OISPG
& Member, The New Club of Paris

Discussants:

Dr. Jana Babnik-Gomišček, Advisor to the Board & Director of Representative Office Brussels SRC.SI, Systems Integration, Ljubljana, Slovenia
& Vice President, Council for Science and Technology, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Republic of Slovenia
Mrs. Nataša Goršek Mencin, Head of Office
European Parliament, Information Office for Slovenia
Academican Dr. Boštjan Žekš, Professor & Provost
University of Nova Gorica

Additional discussant to be indicated

11:00 – 12:30 Panel
The European Network of Living Labs: Current Activities and Future eCollaboration Opportunities
Co-chair:
Veli-Pekka Niitamo, M.Sc., Director of Research
Business Infrastructures, Nokia, Finland
& Chairman, Living Labs Portfolio Leadership Group, European Network of LivingLabs – ENoLL
& Director of Corporate Research Partnership Program, Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research, Helsinki School of Economics
Mr. Stanko Šalamon, Executive Director
The Slovenian ICT Network, Slovenia
& Coordinating Committee, Innovation for Life Quality - Slovenia Living Lab
 

Presenters:
Dr. Jaro Berce, Researcher and Project Leader
Univerity of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Slovenia
Dr. Roman Kužnar, Consultant to the Director
Iskratel, Slovenia,
& director of SINTESIO Foundation Bled, Slovenia
Mr. Sebastian Richter, Captain & PhD Candidate
CeTIM - Center for Technology and Innovation Management Research Fellow,
Universität der Bundeswehr - UniBw München, Germany


12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00
Challenges in Measurements and Data Analysis Methods Applications in the Living Labs
Chair:
Dr. Matevž Bren, Associate Professor
Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Panelists:
How Many Clicks do we need to Create a Web Survey?
Dr. Vasja Vehovar, Professor
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Risk Behaviour and Party Networks of Young Adults - A Cross-Sectional Study In Nine European Countries
Mr. Luka Kronegger, Research Assistant
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Methodology For Identifying Time-Trend Patterns; Application To Advertising Expenditureof 28 European Countries In the Period 1994-2004
Dr. Katarina Košmelj, Professor
Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Alternative Methods to Analyze Relative Survival Data
Ms. Manca Jesenko, Teaching Assistant
Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Slovenia

What is the Added Value which the Living Labs can bring to the Innovative Corporations and Countries?
Moderator:
Dr. Bror Salmelin, Adviser to the Director
European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General,
Directorate H: ICT addressing Societal Challenges
& European Commission Coordinator, Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group – OISPG
& Member, The New Club of Paris

Discussants:
Dr. Imre Cikajlo
Institute for Rehabilitation, Republic of Slovenia
Mrs. Andreja Ivartnik Kanduč, Sales and Marketing Director
Smart Com, Computer and Communication Systems, Slovenia
Dr. Miroljub Kljajić, Professor & Head
Laboratory of Cybernetics and Decision Support Systems
Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Slovenia
& Program Coordinator, Integral Multicriteria System for Decision Support in Enterprise
Mr. Stanko Šalamon, Executive Director
The Slovenian ICT Network
Miloš Kuret, M.Sc., Undersecretary, Acting Deputy Director for International Cooperation
Information Society Directorate, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Republic of Slovenia
& Member, Slovenia Initiative Innovation for Life Quality - Slovenia Living Lab
Mr. Ivan Žerko, President
SRC.SI, Systems Integration, Slovenia
 

15:30 – 17:00 Closing Panel
Coordinated Living labs Actions Planning

Chair:
Dr. András Gábor, Associate Professor
Department of Information Systems, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
& Director, Technology Transfer Center

Reporters:
Dr. Matevž Bren, Associate Professor
Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Dr. Jože Gričar, Professor & eCenter Director
Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Slovenia
& Contact person, eLiving Lab http://eLivingLab.org
& Member, Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group – OISPG
Veli-Pekka Niitamo, M.Sc., Director of Research
Business Infrastructures, Nokia, Finland
& Chairman, Living Labs Portfolio Leadership Group, European Network of LivingLabs – ENoLL
& Director of Corporate Research Partnership Program, Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research, Helsinki School of Economics
Dr. Bror Salmelin, Adviser to the Director
European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General,
Directorate H: ICT addressing Societal Challenges
& European Commission Coordinator, Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group – OISPG
& Member, The New Club of Paris
Mr. Stanko Šalamon, Executive Director
The Slovenian ICT Network, Slovenia
& Coordinating Committee, Innovation for Life Quality - Slovenia Living Lab
 

18:30 – 20:00 Merkur Executive Meeting
Challenges in Provision of an Open and Secure Data Access in the Corporation’s Cross-border Supply Chains
Hotel Creina, Kranj
 

20:00 Dinner hosted by Merkur - Trade and Services plc.

Contact

eCenter
Faculty of Organizational Sciences
University of Maribor
Kidriceva 55a
4000 Kranj
Slovenia

phone: +386 (0)4 237-4291
fax:      +386 (0)4 237-4365

Contact: Maruša Babnik

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