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Innovation Districts as Living Labs Megan Antcliff Director, Strategic Projects and Innovation South Australia, Department for State Development

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Innovation Districts as Living Labs

Megan Antcliff

Director, Strategic Projects and Innovation

South Australia, Department for State Development

LIVING LABS

INNOVATION DISTRICTS

TONSLEY

LIVING LABS

“Hugely powerful yet poorly defined, living labs offer a set of alluring promises” 

‐ Evans & Karvonen

Living Laboratories  view actors (users) as active competent partners and domaine experts  (beyond participation, involvement and engagement). 

The Living lab is both an arena (an environment) and an approach ... designed to:

‐ Speed up the innovation process from idea to market ‐ Co‐create and improve innovative ideas‐ Investigate and create new business opportunities

LIVING LABS: WHAT?

LIVING LABS: WHY NOW?

“The urgent threat of climate change does not afford us the luxury of taking time to reach and apply effective solutions. As in a war effort, it’s necessary for all parties to work together expeditiously, in this case to develop ways of lowering carbon that are demonstrated to be acceptable and feasible in the real lives of those who need to adopt them or are affected by them.”

Salter and White CRC LCL 2013 

LIVING LABS: LOOK LIKE?

•Research – researching different aspects of the innovation process

•Corporate – a physical place where stakeholders (citizens) are invited to co‐create innovations

•Organisational – members of an organisation co‐creatively develop innovations

•Intermediary – different partners collaboratively innovate in a neutral arena

•Time limited – Living lab as a support for the innovation process in a project 

The Eden Project Cornwell

I.D.E.A District San Diego

Amsterdam Living Lab

LIVING

LABS

ACTORS

ARENA

APPROACH

INNOVATION DISTRICTS

“ ... geographic areas where leading edge anchor institutions and companies cluster and connect with start‐ups, business incubators, and accelerators ..... 

Instead of building isolated science parks, innovation districts focus extensively on creating a dynamic physical realm that strengthens proximity and knowledge spillovers.”

Katz et al

INNOVATION DISTRICTS: WHAT?

“Given the vast distinctions in regional economies, the form and function of innovation districts differ markedly across regions. Yet all innovation districts contain economic, physical, and networking assets. 

When these three assets combine with a supportive, risk‐taking culture they create an innovation ecosystem—a synergistic relationship between people, firms, and place  that facilitates idea generation and accelerates commercialisation.”

INNOVATION DISTRICTS: WHAT?

Economic Assets – firms, institutions andorganizations that drive, cultivate or support an innovation‐rich environment

Physical Assets – the public and privately owned spaces, buildings, open spaces, streets and other infrastructure designed to stimulate new connectivity, collaboration and innovation.

Networking Assets – the relationships between actors, such as individuals, firms and institutions that have the potential to generate, sharpen and accelerate the advancement of ideas.

INNOVATION DISTRICTS: WHY NOW?

“For all its power Silicon Valley has a great weakness, it's soul crushing urban sprawl.”

Paul Graham

INNOVATION DISTRICTS: LOOK LIKE?

Physically compact

Amenity‐rich

Central city core location or transit‐accessible

Mixed‐use‐ firms, research labs, and universities, retail, housing

Powered by clean energy

Wired for digital technology

Fuelled by caffeine

Adlershof Berlin

High Tech Campus Eindhoven

Amsterdam Science Park

Advanced Manufacturing Park, Sheffield

Manufacturing Technology Centre

RDM Campus Rotterdam

Tegel TXL Berlin

Christchurch Innovation Precinct

INNOVATION

DISTRICTS

ECONOMIC ASSETS

PHYSICAL ASSETS

NETWORK ASSETS

TONSLEY

TONSLEY: PEOPLE & PARTNERS

“Moving in with other advanced operators and educators into one interactive precinct can only foster greater innovation ... this benefits not just our company, but the entire state. Our vision is to collaborate on site with our best tertiary institutes and aligned smart business in South Australia to form a world‐class centre of excellence in Adelaide.”

ZEN Chief Executive Officer, Richard Turner

“When we came over the hill and we saw the big red roof, we knew we were almost home.”

Bedford Park resident

TONSLEY: PLACE

Adaptive reuse of Main Assembly Building

Design led approach

Place‐making

TONSLEY: PROCESS

Setting the vision 

Bridging known infrastructure gaps 

Attracting private investment  

Brokering the right partnerships 

A triple helix approach 

Industry cluster development 

LIVING

LABS

ACTORS

ARENA

APPROACH

INNOVATION DISTRICTS

ECONOMIC

PHYSICAL

NETWORK

TONSLEY

PEOPLE

PLACE

PROCESS

Thank you