Living Lab Toolkit

This toolkit contains a conceptual framework for an adaptable Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) ‘Living Lab’ with guidelines for set up, application, and adaptation to specific contexts.

What is a Living Lab?

A Living Lab (LL) is an open innovation environment located in a real-life setting in which human-driven innovation drives the co-creation of new products and services. Within LLs, people, such as target users and other stakeholders, help to shape innovations through using products or prototypes in their real-life daily environments. The LL approach prioritises understanding of use in context and seeks to maximize the involvement of end users in the process of design.

Key components of a LL include:

• multiple stakeholders involved,
• real-life environment,
• co-creation innovation activities.