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Living Lab is an umbrella term used for referring to a methodology of user-centric innovation in real-life environments within a wider network of relevant stake holders. Real-life environment refers to living houses and hospitals inter wined and connected together in a way which promotes direct usability of research by the end users. It primarily consists of three stages, Design thinking to actual Conceptualisation, Evaluation and Prototyping and Final product prototyping to commercialisation. The increasing demand of cutting age healthcare system is in itself a challenge and requires user involvement to mobilise knowledge to build a patient centered and knowledge-based economy. Innovations are constantly needed to reduce the problematic barriers to efficient knowledge exchange and improve collaborative problem solving. Living Innovation Lab, as open knowledge system, have immense potential to address these gaps that are underexplored in the healthcare system. |
