Purpose – Recently, the role of place-based innovation has gained relevance and is being explored by a growing number of scholars. We see this as an opportunity to instantiate a new discourse on bottom-up governance, where the role played by the circulation and management of knowledge is at the same time crucial and displaying unexpected […]

Purpose – Urban Living Labs (ULLs) are emerging as user driven, open innovation environments characterized by a strong emphasis on knowledge creation. In ULLs innovation arises by the activation of collective awareness and individual learning processes, which ultimately lead to large-scale behavioural change. How this takes place is often the result of complex and concurrent […]