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The Territorial Dimension of Living Lab Approaches: Starting the European “Participant Observatory”
2011
Territory production can be intended as any process of spatial transformation deriving from a sustainable and reciprocal dialogue between local communities and their spatial context along history time; the territory is a dynamic but durable balance between human settlements and their environments. Territory intended in this way - maybe the major competitive factor of regions and their economic actors too - depends less on merely technological advances, rather than socio-technical innovations able to generate better life quality in cities and regions. This is why in the CIP project “Periphèria”, started in November 2010, a European Observatory of LLs and Smart Cities will be set up, conceive…
Participatory planning in Palermo for social innovation and technologic enhancement. A living Lab territorial game toward city plan
2012
The approach that is offered by Living Labs, particularly for their territorial perspective, can represent one of the ways in which to set the transition from the stage of a “free game”, about scenarios and visions, to the definition of the plan social demand, specifically within the framework of a real experience of the citizenship life. In this sense, such an approach may represent the guarantee of an effectiveness of the plan. Despite the limits, which the previous failures represent, we can remark that through the dimension of openness, roles co-presence and competence of those stakeholders that are involved in Living Labs, the participation processes – from the perspective of a plannin…
Preparing physical and health education pre-service teachers to support students’ physical activity and wellbeing during the school day
2017
Increasingly, physical education teachers are expected to become the cog in an ever-expanding physical activity (PA) promotion wheel. This requires such teachers to be equipped with new knowledge a...
The new face of university–business cooperation in Finland
2016
This paper analyses the development of university-business cooperation (UBC) in Finland in the context of the University Reform Act of 2009, drawing on the experience of four universities: Aalto University, University of Jyvaskyla, University of Turku, and Lappeenranta University of Technology. Six UBC dimensions are examined: institutional context, stakeholders, motivations, facilitators/inhibitors, benefits, and drawbacks. We find that UBC, while a relatively recent process, is growing fast in dynamic local innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems. The University Act of 2009 had an uneven effect on the six UBC dimensions, with the most visible impact being manifested on motivations. Aal…
¿Por qué Turismo? Repensar el auge del turismo
2017
In the present work we consider the reasons that explain the spectacular tourism boom in the last 5 decades. The traditional responses to this phenomenon, presented a whole "frond" of tourist-economical interactions: tourism as a "motor of development", tourism as "dynamizing the economic system", etc. Therefore, our objective is to contrast this Tourism-Development-Economic Growth framework, certainly suggestive. In order to avoid mystifications it is necessary to define somewhat ambiguous concepts such as Development (and its interactions with Tourism) and to deepen the economic impact of Tourism, the ultimate root of all that "frond" that seems to be the basis of This formidable theoreti…
La marque ou une mention innovante permet-elle de compenser l'impossibilité de toucher le produit par les consommateurs ?
2015
Packaging or methods of distance selling prevent consumers from touching the products and therefore from evaluating them properly. Thus the aim of this research is to observe whether extrinsic information, such as brand or innovative cue, can compensate this lack of sensory information and so improve the hedonic evaluation. An experiment conducted on 110 subjects with two fabrics shows that consumers evaluate them more positively when they observe them with an extrinsic information than when they observe them without this information, and that this improvement is greater than that obtained when we allow them to assess the fabrics by the touch in addition to the mere sight.
Open Service Innovation: The Case of Tourism Firms in Scandinavia
2016
Most empirical research investigating open innovation has focused on the development of new physical products in manufacturing industries, whereas open service innovation has not been researched correspondingly. Services have some characteristics that distinguish them from physical products, which may affect the types of open innovation practice utilised during service innovation processes. Tourism services comprise a subset of services that is particularly distant from tangible products. Therefore, the exploration of how tourism firms utilise different types of open innovation practice offers a valuable opportunity to learn about the nature of open service innovation practices. Thus, this …
Plateforme de recherche sur la transition socio-écologique.
2013
Face au changement climatique et à l’épuisement des ressources, il convient d’envisager un changement anthropologique qui permette de préserver notre planète tout en conciliant le progrès social et la performance économique. Comment mobiliser les citoyens et les praticiens autours de conduites éco-responsables dans la perspective d'un développement durable ?Ce projet fédérant les recherches en Sciences Humaines et Sociales vise à identifier les leviers d’une activité professionnelle plus durable en les situant dans une dynamique territoriale observée à l’échelle d’un ou plusieurs petits territoires, qui seront autant de terrains d’expérimentation. Il s’intéresse aux changements de comportem…
Rapport sur la gouvernance du Réseau d’innovation et de recherche sur la Transition socio-écologique
2014
Comme indiqué dans la convention signée le 2 octobre 2013, l’année universitaire 2013-2014 devait permettre de créer le réseau « Transitions » et de fixer les moyens nécessaires à son démarrage. Le Réseau est porté administrativement par la MSH afin de permettre une proximité entre les chercheurs et le monde socio-économique et faciliter le travail collaboratif qui sera effectué avec les chargés de valorisation et chargés de développement Le Réseau de recherche est porté financièrement par l’Université de Bourgogne la première année. Ce portage est réalisé par le subventionnement de l’ADEME à hauteur de 80% du coût de projet pour l’année de démarrage. Son positionnement physique est dans la…
Réseau d'Innovation et de Recherche sur la Transition Socio-écologique
2015
La convention conclue entre l’Agence de l’Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l’Energie (ADEME) Bourgogne et l’Université de Bourgogne, le 1er octobre 2013, est la suite d’un premier partenariat informel qui s’est installé dans le cadre de la réponse à l’appel à projet du programme Movida, porté par la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Dijon depuis 2009.La volonté de l’ADEME est en effet de créer une « plateforme » de recherche, qui permette d’agréer les chercheurs, les collectivités et les acteurs du milieu socio-économique autour d’une thématique commune : la transition socio-écologique. L’objectif est multiple. Il s’agit de :-générer des projets de recherche débouchant sur des innovations…